"When babies are born, babies have an instinctive need, they're hard-wired to breastfeed.

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And the question that preoccupies developmental psychologists is how do we come to have this knowledge, and in particular, how much of it is hard-wired, built-in, innate.

发展心理学家们所关心的问题,就是我们如何获得这些知识的,特别是,这其中有多少是固有的,内在的,天生的

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We are hard-wired to say, "Look. If I'm going to eat a new food and I'm going to get nauseous, " I'm going to avoid that food."

我们深信不疑地说，“如果我吃了一种新食物,感到了恶心，我就不会再吃这种食物了“

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So the fact is those lab animals have a hard-wired preference for foods that are high in fat and high in sugar, primarily because of the energy density that those foods bring to one, and then the variety is important because you get a mix of nutrients.

事实上 实验动物对高脂肪高糖的食物,有着强烈的偏爱,而这种爱基于,该类食物能给我们提供高能量,多样性很重要,因为你能摄取多种营养

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I think that's gut-level, hard-wired, evolved to solve prisoner's dilemmas.

这种感觉是根深蒂固的，经过进化而来的，帮我们解决囚徒困境的。

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