来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：有关食物的心理学、生物学和政治学 第20集 第20集》

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  Kelly was in the middle of writing Food Fight
  凯利正在编写《食物战争》
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  and my oldest daughter
  我的大女儿
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  started first grade at the public elementary school.
  刚进入公立小学
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  What I learned right away
  可是不久后得知
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  was that they sell snack everyday at lunch,
  他们每天午餐时段售卖的所谓零食
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  and snack they defined as ice cream, potato chips,
  其实是冰激凌 薯片
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  things like that they called them all snack.
  他们把这类东西叫做零食
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  My daughter of course came home
  当然我的女儿回家
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  and wanted fifty cents every day to buy this snack,
  每天希望我给她五十美分来买零食
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  and I was really troubled by this,
  我对此感到非常不快
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  because I really didn't want her to be buying snack,
  因为我的确不愿意让她买这些零食
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  but then I was worried about upsetting her.
  但我又怕这样会使她失望