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WHEN MY LOCAL barista handed me my change, one coin stood out.
當地的咖啡師把零錢遞給我時，一枚硬幣脫穎而出。
"Look at that. You rarely get one of these old wheat pennies nowadays,"
“看那，現在很少有這種老式小麥便士了。”
I said, tapping the sheaf of-wheat design. I handed her the penny.
我一邊說，一邊敲著麥秸板的圖案，把硬幣遞給她。
Turning it over and over in her hand, she said, "You know, I always thought they were made of copper."
她將硬幣在手里翻來覆去說道：“你知道嗎，我一直以為它們是銅做的。”
I DON'T MIND vacuuming, but if the cord doesn't reach an area of the room,
我不介意用真空吸塵器清掃，但如果房間里沒有電，
I'm not making a special trip over there.
我不準備去那里旅行。
OUR BIOLOGY TEACHER asked the class whether anyone knew what the word retrovirus meant.
生物老師問班上有沒有人知道逆轉錄病毒這個詞的意思。
One kid raised his hand and said, "Retrovirus, or more commonly known as ... disco fever."
一個小孩舉手說：“逆轉錄病毒，或者更通俗的說法是……迪斯科狂熱。”
THINGS I OVERHEARD AT MY HEALTH CLUB:
我在健身俱樂部聽到的事情：
"I'm only taking this class so I don't eat for an hour."
“我在上課，所以一個小時內我不會吃東西。”
"Who knew 40 years of neglect would have repercussions?"
“試問40年不注意飲食會產生影響嗎？”
"Does this body make me look fat?"
“會讓我看起來很胖嗎?”
I TACKED UP a flyer on the street that proclaimed,
我在街上收到一張傳單，上面寫著：
"Take what you need."
“帶上需要的東西。”
At the bottom were tear-off strips with the words Passion, Strength, Love,
下面是撕掉的紙條，上面寫著：激情、力量、愛、
Patience, Cookies, Courage, and so forth.
耐心、餅干、勇氣等等。
The first strips taken were Cookies and Love.
第一張紙條是餅干和愛。
TRAVELING THROUGH the Midwest, I stopped at an Ohio welcome center to pick up a state map.
穿越中西部時，我在俄亥俄州的一個服務中心停了下來，想拿張地圖。
I found plenty of brochures but no maps.
我找到了很多小冊子，但沒有找到地圖。
Then I spotted two employees and asked whether they had any.
接著我看見兩名員工，問他們有沒有地圖。
"Sure," said the first guy. "I'll get you one."
“當然，”第一個人說。“我去給你拿一張。”
As he walked to the back, the second guy explained,
當他走到后面時，第二個人解釋道，
"We keep them in the storage room. If we leave them out on the counter,
“我們放在了儲藏室，如果放在外面的柜臺上，
people just come in and take them."
人們就會進來拿。”
