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The Strength of Spinach?
菠菜的神力？
Don: Yaël, have you ever heard of Popeye the Sailorman? Whenever he is getting beaten up he eats some spinach and becomes really strong. His muscles bulge out and everything.
你有聽說過大力水手波沛嗎？每次他被痛打的時候，他就會吃菠菜，吃完了之后他就變得非常強壯——肌肉凸出，一切的一切，變得好強壯啊！
Yaël: I do burst your bubble Don. But eating spinach has nothing to do with strength.
Don，我可就要打破你的幻想了！吃菠菜與變得強壯根本就沒什么聯系。
D: Popeye is a lie?
波沛是一個謊言？
Y: Not a lie, exactly. See, some time in the 1920s it was reported that a half cup of cooked spinach has thirty-four milligrams of iron, which is a lot. Iron is important because it carries oxygen in the blood. We need oxygen for energy; without enough of it people become weak and tired.
確切地說，不是謊言。在上世紀20年代，有報道稱，每半杯已烹飪菠菜含有34毫克鐵元素，含量相當的高。由于在血液中的運氧功能，鐵元素頗為重要。氧是人類的動力之源——一旦缺氧，人類便會變得虛弱、易疲乏。
D: So spinach does make you strong, or at least puts extra pep in your step.
因而，菠菜確實能讓人強壯——至少能積存下多余的精力。
Y: Well, it might if it did have much iron. It turns out that the thirty-four milligrams was a typo. A half cup of cooked spinach really has only three point four milligrams of iron. Plus, spinach is actually worse than other iron-containing vegetables because it has a chemical that blocks most of its iron from being absorbed by the blood.But when the typo was published the idea caught on that spinach was a muscle-building vegetable. That’s where the idea for Popeye came from.
嗯，如果鐵元素的含量很多的時候確實如此。事實證明，那34毫克的鐵元素是排版的錯誤——每半杯已烹飪菠菜僅含3.4毫克鐵元素。再者，事實上菠菜還不如其他含鐵的蔬菜好。原因在于，菠菜含有一種化學物質會大大的阻礙鐵元素被血液吸收。但是，當34毫克的“版本”出來的時候，人們就認定了菠菜有助于肌肉的塑成。這就是大力水手波沛的得來吶！
D: So now I have to came up with another point.
那么也就是說，我得重去找其他的方法啦！
Y: Or, how about just being happy with who you are!
抑或，就高高興興的做你自己！
D: Or, maybe I'll learn koradji.
或者，我還可以去學巫術！
Y: Whatever!
這個就要看你自己啦！
