So portions are an interesting phenomenon and people estimate these in different ways.

所以每日摄入量是个值得探讨的现象,人们用不同的方法估测它

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and we kind of expect everyone else to speak English for us.

所以我们也会希望人们会用英语跟我们交流。

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As I say, red tends to be chosen, but then if you get lab experiments showing that that particular color of gas blue is somehow or another sort of more invasive of your consciousness than red is, then you move away from the arbitrariness of the choice of red as a color.

所以人们就倾向于选择红灯，但是如果你想用实验证明,比如说烟蓝色或者,其他任何另一种颜色比红色更加醒目，那么你就忽视了颜色选择上的任意性。

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They invented the paper machine so they could mass-produce paper-- it didn't have to be handmade anymore-- and they invented wood pulp paper so it didn't have to be made out of cloth anymore.

于是人们发明了造纸机从而可以大量生产纸-,而不再需要手工制作-,后来人们还发明了木浆纸,所以后来不再用布料来制纸。

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