Unfortunately, weight loss diets don't work very well, and that's one of the reasons why there is always a diet book on the best-seller list.

很不幸,食品减肥的作用不明显,正因为如此,最畅销书榜才总有减肥食品的书上榜

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When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

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