We all know to stay away from poisons.
Like mercury where ingesting a 200-milligram dose would kill you.
Or polonium which only requires 1g of vaporized substance to wipe out 50 million people!
我们都知道要远离有害有毒物质，比如，汞，200mg就能要了你的命；再比如，钋（其实这是什么呢？谁会读这个字）仅需1克的蒸发物，即可抹杀5000万人的性命。
50 million = 50,000,000
可是，这些看起来健康美味的食物，以及我们以为不错的户外活动也会引起死亡发生。
8过，只要掌握以下这些量，随便吃，随便玩...
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70 cups of coffee contain enough caffeine to kill a 70 kg person
70杯咖啡所含的咖啡因可以导致一个70公斤的人致死。
This amount of caffeine can trigger heart palpitations or even cardiac arrest.
Trigger: 触发；引发 【同义词】lead to; initiate; cause
heart palpitations：心悸
cardiac arrest：心脏骤停
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Prefer alcohol as your beverage of choice
喜欢把酒当日常饮料的同学注意了。
13 consecutive shots could be lethal (致命）too.
连续13个shots的酒也会致命。
Because alcohol is a depressant, the area in the brain controlling basic life functions like breathing and heart rate begin to shut down.
Consecutive: 连续的 【同义词】continuous; in a row
Lethal: 致命 【同义词】fatal
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Too much liquid ，in general， can be dangerous as well.
水喝多了也会有危险哟。
Though it takes a lot, water intoxication from around 6 liters causes brain cells to swell, leading to headaches, seizures, comas and even death in extreme cases.
喝超过6升的水，就会导致水中毒，引起大脑细胞水肿，此时会产生头痛，癫痫，昏迷甚至死掉。
But if you stop drinking water or consume too much salt, your cells will start to shrink leading to the condition known as hypernatremia.
Consume: 消耗；消费 【同义词】spend
Shrink: 减少 【同义词】reduce; decrease; get smaller
Leading to: 导致 【同义词】cause
Headaches：头痛
Seizures: 癫痫
Comas: 昏迷
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Stick your head underwater or simply hold your breath and it takes around 4 minutes without oxygen to cause severe brain injury and at 6 minutes, you could die.
不要在水里闭气超过4分钟，大脑会因为缺氧而在短短的6分钟内死亡。
当然，专业潜水员户外，人家可以闭气20分钟。谁叫人家受过专业训练呢…
Hold breath: 闭气
Brain injury: 大脑受伤
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Cherries can also deprive you of oxygen. Say what?
车厘子也会让你缺氧。啥？
If you ever swallow a cherry pit, you shouldn't worry too much, just don't bite into one. 1 or 2 ground cherry pits contain enough cyanide to take you down.
Swallow: 吞 【同义词】take; process;
Contain: 含有 【同义词】include; involve; have;
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Speaking of a lack of oxygen, it's at around 8000 meters above sea level that our bodies can no longer acclimatize to the limited oxygen, this is known as the "death zone" in mountaineering simply being to talk is also kill you.
登山界中的“死亡地带”是8000米，超过8000米我们的身体开始不适应少氧的环境。
Researchers have hypothesized that every inch above 5 feet takes 1.3 years off your life.
Acclimatize: 适应新环境 【同义词】adjust; adapt; accommodate;
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If you worry about your pet's life you may ever not to give them chocolate.
爱你的宠物就让他们远离巧克力。
The same chemical, uinibrobromine can kill us too.
巧克力里含有的可可碱也会危害人类。
Our body metabolizes Theobromine more effectively the with one thousand per kilogram being total humans which the equivalent at eighty-five for size chocolate bars at once you may want that many chocolate bars after getting tired.
However, you will need to eat 22 kilograms of marijuana to be a risk of death, smoke it and a mere required over those is comically high.
然而，你需要吃掉二十二公斤大麻才有可能产生死亡的风险。
Metabolize: 代谢
Equivalent to: 等同于；相当于 【同义词】equal; comparable;
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