What we have is ancient genes are mismatched with the modern environment.

我们可以看到,古老基因和现代的环境格格不入

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It's a kind of picture for me of the linguistic environment, if you will, of modern poetry.

对我来说，如果你愿意这样想的话，这就是现代诗歌语言环境的一幅图画。

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If you think about the modern food environment compared to the ancient one, so let's say somebody getting something at a fair compared to the old days.

如果将现在的饮食环境,与过去的相比,例如比较在现在和过去的人们,在集市上能买到哪些东西

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There's an extraordinary sense of verbal chaos, a kind of word hoard that modern poetry and modernism -generally, a kind of linguistic environment of great complexity from which modern poetry and modernism emerge.

这里关于口头言论的混乱有一种独特的理解，关于现代诗歌和现代性的隐藏理解,总之，是一种关于语言环境的庞大复杂性的理解,现代诗歌和现代性即是由此产生发展。

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but in the presence of the modern food environment that provides access to these things, and to foods like a pop tart with fifty-six different things in it, the body gets thrown off.

但在如今的饮食环境中,我们可以随时接触到像是果酱馅饼,这样的集五十六种成分于一身的食物,但却不利于身体健康

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And so one could say that there is a very unfortunate mismatch between our biology and our evolution and the modern food environment, because biology of course takes thousands and thousands, millions of years even to change, but the food environment has changed relatively recently.

可以说,在人类的生物进化和现在的,食品环境之间存在着非常不幸的脱节,生物学上的改变要花上,成千上万年的时间,但是食品环境却可以在短时间内迅速改变

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There are probably those of you in the class already who are outraged by things like the modern food environment, how much energy it takes to transport things from place to place, lack of concern with sustainability and issues like this, and you'd like to see social change.

在坐的各位当中可能已经有人,对目前的食品环境感到愤怒,很多能量浪费在食品相关的运输上,忽略了对可持续性的关心等问题,你可能希望社会会有所改变

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