So it was a major change in human evolution where people started raising animals in large groups or started growing plants in large amounts.

这在人来演化史上是个巨大的变革,人类开始大规模饲养动物,或是大量种植农作物

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I just mentioned examples of that, so the organism seeks out fat, sweet, and variety and eating large amounts of food becomes a priority, at least according to the brain.

我仅仅是举了个例子,机体寻求脂肪,糖或其他食物,大量进食成了首要任务,至少大脑是这么认为的

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So, even if the cost is small, $10 a dose, it quickly amounts to a large amount of money.

因此,即使单只成本很小,可能只有十美元,但是这很快就会累积成为很大的金额

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Large amounts of sugar in peanut butter, large amounts of sugar will go into things like stews, and soups, and things like that where you wouldn't necessarily expect to find it.

花生酱的含糖量是非常高的,在炖菜和汤中也含有大量的糖类,这些是你们平时都没有注意过的

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The ones that get talked about the most in terms of health, the one is sodium of course, because salt intake but the others are important for health as well and in some cases they're being consumed in large amounts and some in small amounts.

提到最多的和健康相关的矿物质,当然就是钠了,因为人每天都吃盐,但其它元素对健康也同样重要,某些情况下,矿物质的消耗量会很大,而在另一些情况下则很小

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Because of that large amounts of particular types of pesticides and fertilizers and the like have to be used to defend against these outside threats; and those bring their own series of environmental consequences, so we'll go into that in some detail.

由于上述原因,人们大剂量使用某些,杀虫剂和化肥,这样做是为了抵御外来威胁,这带来了一系列的环境影响,我们来详细看看是怎么回事

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But then they can also be toxic if taken in too large of amounts because the body does store them.

但如果摄入过量也会中毒,因为机体储存的脂溶性维生素也会过量

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