So portions are an interesting phenomenon and people estimate these in different ways.

所以每日摄入量是个值得探讨的现象,人们用不同的方法估测它

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But medium today is not what medium used to be, and because of that people really make a lot of errors in understanding how much a portion is.

但现在的中包薯条和过去的大小不同,因为这,人们理解什么是每日摄入量时,就犯了很多错误

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But you know, when people eat pancakes it may not be this extreme, but still, there are a lot of things that-- where the portion sizes are misestimated.

但当人们吃薄煎饼时可能没那么夸张,但仍然,量非常大,每日摄入量被完全错估了

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For example, a portion of pasta according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture would be about the amount of pasta that would be the size of a tennis ball.

比如说,意大利面的每日摄入量,根据美国农业部,是如此的份量,大概和网球一样大小

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Now if you lived in a culture where the only meat that got served was the size of a deck of cards, and the only pasta that got served was the size of a tennis ball, there wouldn't be such problems, but that's not the case.

如果我们生活在一个,肉类每日摄入量是一副牌大小,或者意大利面只有网球大小的环境中,问题就不会存在,可惜这不是现实

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