But the United States, which is the largest provider, "is lagging a little bit behind the curve of good practice in food aid."

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W2 So in this case, it's the amount of work is the area under that curve. And in this case here, the amount of work is bigger, w2 is bigger and it's the area under this curve.

这是路径2做的功,比W1要大，现在假设,我把这两条路径结合起来。

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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