Even small changes in what we eat and how we prepare our food can be very useful, says physician David Servan-Schreiber, author of "Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life".

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It means that we want to eat when there's food around, and it doesn't matter so much whether we're really hungry.

这就意味着只要周围有食物我们就想吃,不管我们是不是真的饿了

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And things are a lot more expensive so we're spending a lot more money on food just to eat.

吃的东西很贵，所以我们在食物上花了很多钱。

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"How would we justify an essentially agrarian country importing most of the food that it eats and then using our lands to produce something else that we don't eat?

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

We remember the fish that we used to eat free in Egypt Okay, we were slaves, but the food was free, you know?

我记得以前在埃及的时候不花钱就可以吃鱼,虽然我们是奴隶，但是食物是免费的，你知道吗？

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We have to go out and eat the gourmet food to enjoy it.

要享受美味大餐，就得出去吃。

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We are hard-wired to say, "Look. If I'm going to eat a new food and I'm going to get nauseous, " I'm going to avoid that food."

我们深信不疑地说，“如果我吃了一种新食物,感到了恶心，我就不会再吃这种食物了“

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to the process whereby the heavenly angels not only eat food but they also digest it; and Milton lets us know, whether we want to know or not, how those angels actually excrete the food they have taken in.

去描述天堂的天使不只吃食物而且要消化它的过程,弥尔顿让我们知道，不管我们想不想，这些天使怎样排泄出他们吃的食物。

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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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The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

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So that would suggest that education is probably not going to get the job done, because that's not the main driving reason because most people know that they shouldn't eat so much junk food, but education is what we default to when we think about what to do.

所以你们可能认为,教育并不能解决这个问题,因为这不是主要原因,大部分人都知道不该吃那么多垃圾食品,教育是思考解决方法时被忽略了的

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