I have left out meat and fish, of course, neither of them very common in this part of the world, but meat was common enough, because there were sheep and there were goats, even when beef would have been very hard to get.

当然我没提到肉和鱼,它们在希腊都不是很常见,但相对来说肉类已经相当常见了,因为即使在牛肉都很难搞到的时候,这里还有着绵羊和山羊

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It's like just vegetables but they try to make it taste like food with meat in it, so.

但是他们用蔬菜做的素食，吃起来总感觉里面有肉。

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But what you need to understand about the Greeks is that they don't eat a lot of meat.

但是你们需要理解的是,希腊人并不常食肉

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So economically it meant more-- it made more sense to eat meat under those circumstances, but of course the meat didn't exist in all places of the world, so some people were dependent on plants.

因此,从经济角度看,在那样的环境中,食肉更加合理,当然肉类并不是世界各地到处都有,因此,有些人们就依赖于农作物

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We talked about this a little bit in section last week, when you eat vegetables or meat, you're eating a lot of DNA but that doesn't enter the cells of your body because of the barrier properties of cell membranes.

这个我们上周讨论会讲过一些,我们在吃蔬菜或者肉类时,摄入了大量DNA,它们之所以不会进入你的体细胞,就是由于细胞膜的这种屏障作用

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This was thought by many to be a positive change but in game rich environments where there was a lot of meat available, people could actually get many more calories per hour-- that is secure more food that would help fend off starvation compared to what they could get for people cultivating food.

很多人都认为这是一个积极的改变,然而 在那些富饶地区,获取肉类轻而易举,同样时间内,人类可以获取更多能量,相对那些靠种植获取食物的人类来说,这些地区有足够多的食物来抵御饥荒

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Now that seems counterintuitive now because we think that a plant based diet may be more healthy for people than a meat based diet, but remember, that we're fighting off overnutrition and these folks were fighting off undernutrition.

现在看来似乎并非如此,因为我们认为,对于人类来说,植物性饮食比以动物性饮食更为健康,但是请记住,我们正在对抗营养过剩,而这些人们正在和营养不良作斗争

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