He got that name ecause any man who rode that horse would be thrown off and killed and his wife would become a widow.

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This normal weight animal like this has its whole equilibrium thrown off, its homeostasis thrown off when its dietary conditions change.

在饮食条件发生变化时,这些正常体重动物的生理平衡被打破,于是摈弃了原来的平衡饮食

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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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The myth, perpetuated by De Gaulle, the big guy, was that in France everybody had resisted except for a few elites, and then France had risen up to follow his great shadow and had thrown off the oppressor and founded a republic.

传说中,这也被戴高乐延续了,大个子,在法国每个人,除了一小撮精英以外都参与了抵抗,然后法国跟随着他的光辉,崛起了,赶走了压迫者,建立了共和国

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And also, as I'll discuss in a minute, a lot of people don't recognize what a portion is, and because the food industry has been very successful at recalibrating us to think about what's acceptable to eat in one sitting at one time, and because of that our notions of portions have been thrown way off.

同时,马上我要讲到,很多人不知道摄入量是什么,因为食品业,成功的重塑了我们,就坐用餐时关于什么东西是可食用的看法,而这使我们对摄入量这个概念,有了不同看法

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