In certain location things were dominated by certain cereals; rice in Asia, wheat in Europe, sorghum and millet in Africa, and maize in the New World.

不同的地方有不同的主食,比如,亚洲主食米饭,欧洲主食小麦,非洲主食高粱和小米,美洲主食玉米

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We'll talk later about the politics of food and how the food industrywas very influential in getting the government to allow them to make health claims on cereals.

往后我们将谈到食品政治学,以及食品行业是如何深刻的影响到政府,使其允许它们做关于谷物的"健康宣示"

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So we started collecting cereals and things like that from various countries, and found in this preliminary study, that it was the case, the American foods were sweeter.

我们从全球各地,收集了一些麦片之类的样本,研究发现,情况确实如此,美国的食品相对要甜一些

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You see the lactose of course from milk, and then when you get down to the cellulose, and we're talking about starches and then fiber gets involved in here too, then cereals and vegetables become the primary source of these.

你们知道乳糖来自于乳类,当你研究纤维素的时候,以及我们在这里所说的淀粉和纤维,他们最主要的来源是谷类和蔬菜

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