Sometimes,one plate subducts -- or slides under -- another plate.

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In order for a more or less round plate to remind me of roundness, Plato says, I have to have already met perfect roundness itself.

如果一个或多或少,有点圆的盘子能让我想到正圆,柏拉图认为,我必须已经见过完美的圆本身了

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So we actually had the foods on a plate or in a bowl, or in a glass, and we had--we asked them to estimate how much of the food there was, how many ounces they were seeing, and then how many calories there were.

食物被摆在盘子,碗,玻璃杯中,然后让他们估计食物总量,有多少盎司,多少卡路里

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