The anthropologist Mary Douglas has pointed out that, for the English, the kind of meal and the kind of food that is served relate to the kinds of social links between people who are eating together.

人类学家玛丽·道格拉斯指出，对于英国人来说，餐饮的种类和提供的食物关系到一起吃饭的人之间的社会关系。

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Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual.

吃饭是一个生理需要，但是用餐却是一个社交仪式。

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People may develop social norms or beliefs about what are acceptable weight and eating patterns.

人们可能有一种关于什么是可接受体重和饮食结构的社会基准或信条。

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Is it academic stress, social stress and the like, that depend--that determines in part how people respond with their eating.

是学业压力,社会压力还是别的压力,压力类型多少决定了,人们对于食物的态度

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They weren't eating all the time, their eating was confined to three meals a day, it was more likely to be a social event because the family was together, and the food had more--you had a better personal relationship with food.

他们不是一直在吃东西,他们会规律的遵守每日三餐,可能那时候吃饭更像是个社交活动,因为家庭成员们都聚在一起,而且食物也更多,人和食物之间的关系更和谐

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