We're going to talk about various aspects of food and I'd like to start off with a little pop quiz.

我们将讨论有关食品的方方面面,我将以一个小测验来开始这门课

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we're not going to talk about the funeral industry in America and how it rips off people, which it does, in their moments of grief and weakness and overcharges them for the various things that it offers.

我们也不会讨论美国的丧葬行业,以及他们如何敲诈百姓，实际上就是这样，在他们悲伤脆弱的时候,对他们提供的各种服务漫天要价。

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So, what I want to do is start off small, with the smallest interesting part of the brain and then get bigger and bigger and bigger talk about how the small part of the brain, the neurons, the basic building blocks of thought, combine to other mental structures and into different subparts of the brain and finally to the whole thing.

我将从细微入手,从大脑最细微的部分开始,然后逐步扩大,来谈谈大脑的基本单元,也就是神经元,也是思考的基本构造,是如何组成其他心理结构的,又是如何形成不同脑组织的,最终构建出了整个的大脑

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