They deliver different amounts of energy and they also deliver different amounts of nutrients, but we'll talk about the energy for the moment.

它们提供的能量不等,提供的营养数量也是不同的,当然我们现在讨论的是能量

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Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.

现在这些地区的数量正在减少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亚或是索马里,或是当前食品十分短缺的地区,那么拥有这种生物驱动力,拥有不断驱使你去寻找食物的大脑,会让你有极强的适应能力

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This is years to go and so 12T would be the number of months to go before it ends.

也就是现在至到期日的年份数量,因此12T是现在至到期日的月份数

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