I understand you were a bit of a drinker, I say in polite understatement.

“我知道有酒量，”我委婉地说。

High tolerance means it takes more to get drunk.

酒量好意味着醉酒需要更多的酒。

What about you, James? I know you drink like a fish.

呢，詹姆斯？我知道酒量很大的。

Also he wished to show he could hold his liquor and be practical.

同时他也希望表示自己酒量大，头脑还管用。

And this was just the amount of booze that the average Russian man was drinking.

这只是俄罗斯男性平均的饮酒量。

I am not even drunk. My tolerance is, like, way up here.

我还没醉呢。我的酒量，可在这呢。

Yes. And the health risk increases with the amount you drink.

是的。而且随着饮酒量的增加，患病几率也在增加。

So when it comes to drinking, the best amount of alcohol is no alcohol at all.

所以说到喝酒，最好的饮酒量是完全不喝酒。

The heavier drinkers were also less likely to have a heart attack, the study found.

该研究发现，饮酒量高的心脏病发作的几率也更低。

Fifty years ago, British inventors made and marketed the first electronic breathalyzer.

50前，英国发明家创造并出售了第一台电子“体内酒量测定器”。

However, only 1 in 6 U.S. adults reported ever discussing alcohol consumption with their doctor.

但是只有六分之一的与医生讨论过他们的饮酒量。

It's unclear why the study found that the drug only lowered alcohol consumption in people with obesity.

尚不清楚为什么研究发现这种药物只会降低肥胖者的饮酒量。

And those deep, slow-wave sleep periods are also reduced for people who have tied on more than one.

并且深度、慢波睡眠阶段也会因一杯以上的饮酒量而缩短。

The rest are quite low at moderate drinking but they do rise rapidly.

如果微量饮酒患其他的几种癌症的几率很小，但是如果饮酒量增加，患病几率也会大幅增加。

But only study participants with obesity ended up drinking significantly less than their peers who received a placebo.

只有肥胖的研究参与者最终饮酒量明显少于服用安慰剂的同龄。

For example, they reported drinking only half as much alcohol as the bottles in their trash indicated.

例如，参与者报道的自己的饮酒量只是垃圾堆里酒瓶的一半的量。

Any level of alcohol is not safe, says the guidelines, and recommended levels have been drastically cut.

根据指导原则，任何级别的酒精都是不安全的，建议的饮酒量大幅减少。

All that it means is that it takes more alcohol than normal to make you feel drunk.

也就是说，他们的酒量好只是醉意来的比别迟缓。

Health professionals, screen all adult patients for alcohol use, and advise those who drink too much to drink less.

健康专业士为所有病进行了饮酒筛查，并建议饮酒过量的要减少酒量。

The United States government currently advises no more than seven drinks a week for women and 14 for men.

目前，美国政府对女士和男士饮酒量的建议分别是每周7瓶和每周14瓶。