来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：有关食物的心理学、生物学和政治学 第2集 第2集》

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  now there are lots of ways to add sugar to things,
  现在还有很多其他添加糖类的方法
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  and sugar is everywhere and added to foods you wouldn't expect.
  糖类无处不在 只是你们没有注意而已
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  We did a little study once in our group
  我们小组曾做了个研究
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  testing the following hypothesis.
  想要检验下述假说
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  Now we never completed the study so we never wrote it up,
  现在研究尚未完成 所以还没写成论文
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  but we did find some interesting preliminary things.
  但我们发现了一些有趣的原始发现
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  Our hypothesis is that in the United States
  我们假设 在美国
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  it's less expensive to sweeten things than it is elsewhere in the world,
  让食物变甜的成本比在其他国家要低
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  and part of that is because of high fructose corn syrup
  其中一部分是因为高果糖玉米糖浆
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  that we'll talk about later in the class.
  稍后我们会讲一下这个糖浆问题
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  It becomes very inexpensive to sweeten things.
  所以甜点就变得比较便宜
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  Why would you sweeten things in the United States?
  为什么在美国要把食物变甜呢