Now, for the taste, the diet then was relatively bland, compared to today's.

和今天相比，那时候人们的口味是比较清淡的。

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One of the most common barriers that prevent people from embarking upon a healthy diet is the idea that it is bland, boring or just plain bad, yet nothing could be further from the truth!

人们通常很难下定决心去遵循健康的饮食习惯，其中最重要的原因就是他们眼中的健康饮食就意味着枯燥乏味和难以忍受的一成不变——这种看法真是荒谬！

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The author of ‘A Fondness for Food’ even wrote about “the bland , standard UK diet”.

《狂爱美食》一书作者甚至还写道“英国菜的标准就是淡而无味”。

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It is a useful feature in poor countries where the diet might otherwise be unbearably bland and stodgy.

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The sight of such unusually open dispute encouraged an outburst of enthusiasm from a public that had grown inured, under Mr Ahmadinejad, to a bland, adulatory media diet.

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In other words, creating structure in your diet doesn't mean that breakfast, lunch and dinner have to be bland affairs.

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