This machinery is so precise that a human hair couldn't even pass between the heads and spinning platters, yet it all works in terrific speeds.

这些设备是很紧密的以至于人的头发,都不能在头和旋转的磁盘之间通过，尽管如此，它的运行速度非常快。

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What he proposes is that we have become so precise about nutrients, and so concerned about the things that are in food, we've lost sense of what food is.

他认为我们越来越关注营养,关注存在于食物当中的物质,却忽略了食物本身

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So here's my attempt to make the question both a bit more precise, and a question that's an open question.

我正尝试,让这两个问题变得更准确,这是个开放性的问题

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And because of this nutritionism, because of the reductionism where we have become so precise about what we eat in terms of its tiny constituents that we've lost track of the bigger picture of food.

由于被营养学,以及简化论所左右,使得我们对食物的,简化论:社会调查的一个名词指用个体层次资料揭示宏观层次的现象 每一点细节都变得特别在意 即用比较低的分析单位来测量而作出的是比较高的分析单位才能得出的结论,反而失去与食物在宏观上的联系

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So if you were wanting a pretty precise number on how many calories are in a food, you'd send it to a lab.

所以如果想要一个精确的,食物所含卡路里的数值,就把食物送到实验室

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Then also a problem is you can't weigh things when you're eating out, so even if you were being incredibly precise about stuff at home and you were actually weighing things, you couldn't do that very well when you're eating out.

问题是,当你在外吃饭时无法称量食物,所以即使你在家中非常精确地测量食物,并且实际测量了每样物品,但在外吃饭时你可没法这样干

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