He does a great deal else in it, but I'm isolating this strand, which is what's relevant to what we're talking about.

他在书里还讲了很多别的东西，但我要把这点单拎出来，因为只有这一点和我们要讨论的相关。

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We have either single atoms or molecules consisting of small numbers of atoms.

单原子或者分子,由很多很小的原子组成。

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Because there are a lot more chemical-sounding things in that list of ingredients than there are things that nature would recognize or we would ordinarily recognize as food.

因为配料单里的很多东西,看上去更像化学成分,而不是我们通常认为的自然物质,或者常规意义上的食物

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