Now, of course, there are denominator issues here because we started with a much higher base rate than these other countries, but if you think about the size of the populations there, the number of people who are going to become diabetic in the next twenty-five years is really very frightening.

现在,当然这里存在着分母的问题,我国的增长基数比其他国家要大得多,因为一旦考虑到人口总量,在未来25年成为糖尿病人的人数,就非常非常的惊人了

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So in a town that's the size of new Haven with a population of let's say 100,000 people in just the immediate New Haven area, there might be 20 of these instances of very severe form of polio per year, 20 crippled children would result.

在一个像纽黑文这么大的城市里,大约有十万人口,生活在纽黑文地区的人当中,每年可能就会有二十人,感染到这种急性传染病,可能会导致二十个孩子残疾

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Cereal would be--a serving of cereal would be about the amount that would fit in a wine glass, but people think that you fill up a bowl and that becomes a serving, but a typical amount of cereal that people serve themselves might be two or three times what the ordinary size is.

这是一餐份量的麦片,放在酒杯里大概那么多,但人们认为满满一碗才是一份,人们通常所食用的麦片,是原来大小的二到三倍

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