Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Bite for bite
English answer:
relative to the same quantity consumed
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Minoru Kuwahara
May 20, 2013 03:17
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English term
Japan
Native in: Japanese
Works in: English to Japanese, French to Japanese, Japanese to English
Bite for bite
English
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Cosmetics, Beauty
Bite for bite, berries offer a higher concentration of antioxidants than most other foods.
This is description of a smoothie recipe. I'm having hard time to grasp the meaning of the phrase "Bite for bite" in this context. Could you help so that I could correctly understand it and place into translation? Thanks.
This is description of a smoothie recipe. I'm having hard time to grasp the meaning of the phrase "Bite for bite" in this context. Could you help so that I could correctly understand it and place into translation? Thanks.
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Charles Davis
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relative to the same quantity consumed
It means that a given quantity of berries that one eats contains a larger amount of antioxidants than the same quantity of any other food.
"Bite" is being used here to refer to a quantity eaten, "1 a an amount of food that you bite with your teeth" ( http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/bite_... a mouthful.
"For" expresses equivalence: a bite one food (cherries) compared with a bite another food (anything else):
"for
21. as a direct equivalent to ⇒ word for word, weight for weight"
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/for
"Bite" really means that one is comparing the quantity of antioxidants by volume. Actually one normally consumes berries in smaller quantities than other foods, and this is reflected in "concentration": antioxidants are presented in a more concentrated form in berries than in other foods.
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Note added at 44 mins (2013-05-20 04:02:37 GMT)
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Sorry: in the third paragraph above I meant "a bite OF one food ... compared with a bite OF another food".
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Note added at 2 hrs (2013-05-20 06:11:35 GMT)
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And I also put "cherries" instead of "berries"; apologies again! Perhaps I was thinking of the expression "another bite of the cherry".
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Note added at 8 hrs (2013-05-20 11:40:48 GMT)
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Yet another little error in my explanation: the source text says "most other foods", not "any other food".
"Bite" is being used here to refer to a quantity eaten, "1 a an amount of food that you bite with your teeth" ( http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/bite_... a mouthful.
"For" expresses equivalence: a bite one food (cherries) compared with a bite another food (anything else):
"for
21. as a direct equivalent to ⇒ word for word, weight for weight"
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/for
"Bite" really means that one is comparing the quantity of antioxidants by volume. Actually one normally consumes berries in smaller quantities than other foods, and this is reflected in "concentration": antioxidants are presented in a more concentrated form in berries than in other foods.
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Note added at 44 mins (2013-05-20 04:02:37 GMT)
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Sorry: in the third paragraph above I meant "a bite OF one food ... compared with a bite OF another food".
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Note added at 2 hrs (2013-05-20 06:11:35 GMT)
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And I also put "cherries" instead of "berries"; apologies again! Perhaps I was thinking of the expression "another bite of the cherry".
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Note added at 8 hrs (2013-05-20 11:40:48 GMT)
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Yet another little error in my explanation: the source text says "most other foods", not "any other food".
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Comment: "Hi Charles, I really appreciate your input of clarification for this phrase, which otherwise would have been no way for me to put into proper language. In short, I understand this phrase is saying the same thing as the following main clause."
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