And the question is, what do we want to count? Now, one possibility is to do best case.

问题是，我们应该针对哪种状况？,一种可能性是针对最好的情况，也就说在所有可能的输入里面。

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When one thinks about changing the health of a population diet has to be considered one of the possible places to intervene.

如果想要改变一群人的健康状况,饮食一定会是着手点之一

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This was motivated by a spectacular failure of a brokerage, Goodbody & Co., in 1970.

一家证券经纪行的倒闭改变了这一状况,古德巴迪公司,于1970年倒闭

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And yet we know that evil is a condition of human existence.

但我们知道，邪恶是人类生存的一种状况。

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But who can do what to change the situation?

谁能做些什么来改变这一状况呢？

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It is going on for many years actually from the time of operation providr comfort with which I was involved in Northern Iraq when we realised that we would have civilian problems we need to develope civilian capacity to deal with these things.

这种状况已经持续了很多年了,从一开始在阿富汗北部,我参与的提供安慰行动,那时候我们就意识到我们缺少平民,我们需要更多的平民来解决这些问题。

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It's a more powerful method than something called a cross-sectional study, and I'll come back in a later lecture and talk about these in more detail, but a cross-sectional study means you're taking a snapshot of a population of people at one time.

这种方法比所谓的横断面研究更加有效,我将在以后的课中,再仔细讨论这个问题,但横断面研究是指,你一次记录下一群人的状况

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What they do in this study is they took this cohort of a hundred thousand nurses and then have followed them repeatedly over the years, with very careful assessments of diet, health status, and other things, and countless papers, important papers have been published from this particular cohort.

在研究过程中,他们以十万名护士为研究群组,很长一段时间内定期追踪她们的信息,包括关于饮食健康状况等的详细评估,同时还不断刊发基于这一研究群组,的重要论文

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