《最后的晚餐》中食物不断增加

 　　A pair of US academics have analysed 52 of the most famous paintings of the Last Supper painted between 1000 and 2000 -- and discovered that, over that period, the portions of food placed before Jesus and his disciplesgrew astonishingly.

　　近日，美国两位学者对1000年至2000年间绘制的52幅以“最后的晚餐”为主题的著名画作进行分析比较后发现，在这一时期内，画中摆放在耶稣和他的信徒面前的食物份量不断增加。

　　Using computer-aided design technology, they scanned the main dish, bread and plates and calculated the size of portion relative to the size of the average head in the painting.

　　研究人员采用电脑设计技术对画中的主菜、面包和餐盘进行了扫描，并计算出食物的尺寸与画中人物头的尺寸之间的比例。

　　Over a thousand years, the size of the main dish progressively grew by 69.2 per cent, plate size by 65.6 percent and bread size by 23.1 percent, they found.

　　研究人员发现，在这一千多年间，画中的主菜、餐盘和面包的尺寸分别增加了69.2%、65.6%和23.1%。

　　The growing size reflects the success of agriculture over the ages, the researchers said.

　　研究人员称，食物和餐盘尺寸的增长反映出这么多年来农业产量的增加。

　　"The last thousand years have witnessed dramatic increases in the production, availability, safety, abundance and affordability¹ of food," said Brian Wansink, a professor of marketing² and applied³ economics at Cornell University.

　　康奈尔大学营销和应用经济学教授布赖恩·万辛克说：“在过去一千年间，食物的生产、可用性、安全性、丰富程度以及可购性都大幅提高。”

　　"We think that as art imitates life, these changes have been reflected in paintings of history's most famous dinner."

　　“我们认为，由于艺术描绘的是现实生活，所以这些变化也反映在这一史上最著名的晚餐的画作之中。”

　　The study, published in Britain's International Journal of Obesity⁴, is co-authored by Wansink's brother, Craig, a Presbyterian minister and professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College.

　　该研究报告在英国《国际肥胖杂志》上发表，由万辛克和他的兄弟、弗吉尼亚卫斯理公会学院宗教学教授、长老会牧师克雷格共同撰写。

　　The Bible makes no mention of what was eaten at the Last Supper. But the main dishes depicted⁵ in the paintings contained fish or eel⁶ (18 percent), lamb (14 percent) and pork (seven percent).

　　《圣经》中并未提及《最后的晚餐》中有哪些食物，但画作中出现的主菜包括鱼肉或鳗鱼（18%）、羊肉（14%）以及猪肉（7%）等。

　　Vocabulary:

　　disciple：a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of another; follower（信徒，门徒）

1 affordability   

可购性

参考例句：

• Performance-Based Logistics Affordability: Can We Afford Categorical Conversion to Performance-Based Acquisition? 基于性能的后期的可承受性：能否担负得起向基于性能的采办的无条件的转变？
• There would be no crisis of affordability, as't for food or clothing. 就想食物与服装一样，因为供给没有危机。

2 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

3 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

4 obesity   

n.肥胖，肥大

参考例句：

• One effect of overeating may be obesity.吃得过多能导致肥胖。
• Sugar and fat can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods.糖和脂肪比其他食物更容易导致肥胖。

5 depicted   

描绘，描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 )； 描述

参考例句：

• Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
• They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。

6 eel   

n.鳗鲡

参考例句：

• He used an eel spear to catch an eel.他用一只捕鳗叉捕鳗鱼。
• In Suzhou,there was a restaurant that specialized in eel noodles.苏州有一家饭馆，他们那里的招牌菜是鳗鱼面。