So basically, the whole society was spending all of the time raising enough food just to support life and there was only 5% left over and that ended up being used in ways like this.

基本上,整个社会全部时间都被用于积累足量食物,这仅是为了维持生计,只剩下5%的时间,被用来建造金字塔,为法老服务

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If you take in more calories than you consume, it gets stored in the fat cells, that's the energy bank that you can draw upon if you don't have enough food and starvation or famine were an issue.

如果你摄入的热量超过消耗的,热量就会存储在脂肪细胞中,这就是能量库,你可以在,食物不够以及饥饿或饥荒的时候利用它

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Now this does not mean that a person who doesn't have enough food, someone who is homeless on the streets here, gets an extra thousand or two thousand dollars a month-- that of course will make him or her much happier.

并不是说一个没有足够食物，一个无家可归，流落街头的人，每个月多有一两千美元-,那当然会让他或她更快乐。

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You've got horses which you need for the army but also which they start slaughtering; you've got cattle but you have enough food to last for maybe a month; there's always a lot to drink because of the caves, that is, the wine cellars that people had, but things get worse and worse.

你有军队所需的马,但是士兵会把马杀来吃,你有牛,但是这些食物只能,维持大概一个月的时间,喝的东西总是不缺的,因为他们有酒窖,就是用来储藏葡萄酒的酒窖,不过事态还是变得越来越糟

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Because nutrition is going to be one of the big problems of your generation; how to have enough nutritious food for the population as it grows.

因为营养,对你们这一代人是个大问题,怎样才能确保食物的质和量,能够满足日益增长人口的需求

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Satiety, or the feeling full, having enough, being sated, gets trumped by the presence of food.

吃饱喝足,酒足饭饱,仍会被眼前的食物所迷惑

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