这很奇怪，因为研究人员观察的各种实验室动物往往被给予大量食物，且让它们在闲暇时一点一点蚕食。

This is strange because the sorts of lab animals the researchers looked attend to be given lots of food and left to nibble at leisure.

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每次想到世界实验室动物周，我就会想起拉特斯基。

I never think about World Week for Animals in Laboratories without thinking about Ratsky.

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或许最有趣的是，实验室动物比非实验室动物表现出更为明显的体重增加。

Most intriguingly, perhaps, the laboratory animals showed more pronounced gains than those living outside a lab.

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Now it's not uncommon, by the way, for laboratory animals in these studies to triple their body weight.

顺便说下,在实验室,让动物体重变成普通的三倍,并不罕见

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And there are three properties of this diet that help promote overeating and obesity in laboratory animals.

而这种导致实验室动物,过度进食和肥胖的饮食具备三种特征

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Let me ask another question, if you give this-- and we'll talk about this in a later lecture, but if you give this diet to laboratory animal-- rats, mice, whatever-- it's very common for animals to gain a good bit of weight when given access to this diet.

我们来看另一个问题,如果你给,我们将在以后的课上讨论这个话题,但如果你给实验室动物,像小白鼠之类的,给予某种类型的饮食,这种饮食习惯会使得体重增加

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