So while our personal history can help us understand how or why things may have become the way they are today, it often cannot actually tell us what to do to change things right here and now.

所以当我们个人的历史能够帮我们明白如何或为什么事情会变成今天这个样子，事实上，它经常不能够告诉我们此时此刻做什么可以改变事情。

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But if consumption, the very hallmark of American culture, did not save the day in the 2000s, why would it do so today?

不过，如果消费，这个美国文化的标志不能拯救2000年代的话，今天它又会有什么效果呢？

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But it just didn't seem right to do so today.

但是似乎在今天这个时候并不是个寻求帮助的好时机。

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But it's a very interesting topic, so today we're going to talk about how do you measure what people eat, and you're having some experience that yourself with the daily plate dietary assessment.

这个话题实在有趣,所以今天我们要讲如何评估人们吃的东西,你们就能学到一些知识,来做自己的日常的饮食分析

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Agriculture still looks a big winner, and so do industrial materials, but it seems today there's relatively more demand in basic industries than for the finished goods that use them.

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So today, Zend showed just what it can do.

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This makes so much of the hard work we do worth it, to see this ceremony here today.

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