炸薯条

Most students, they work on the fryer at KFC, but you bussed tables at Il Picador to support yourself.

大部分学生都在肯德基炸薯条的时候，你就已经在斗牛士西餐厅张罗餐桌赚钱养活自己了。

Perhaps sometimes on that roof, 40 stories above the East River, my mother imagined she could hear the Atlantic Ocean, breaking against the jetties16 of Rockaway Beach, and thought of old summer times walking along the boardwalk17 and of playland with its merry-go-round18, fun house, haunted house, loop-the-loop19, bumper cars, and hordes of hucksters20, selling cotton candy, popcorn, caramel corn, hot dogs, French fries, and candy apples.

就在那个楼顶上，那个在东河之上40层高的地方，也许有的时候，母亲会想象自己听到了大西洋的涛声，波浪拍打着洛克威海滩上的防波堤；想到很久以前的夏天沿着木板路漫步的时光；想到游乐场里的旋转木马、奇幻屋、鬼屋、绕环滑车、碰碰车，还有成群结队的小贩兜售棉花糖、爆米花、焦糖玉米、热狗、法式炸薯条和糖苹果。

There, over warm beer and soggy fries, middle-aged men pontificate on everything from

好了，热啤酒再加上炸薯条，中年男人就像教皇一样诟病越

You can take a free potato chip with this ticket in KFC.

凭此卷你可以在肯德基免费得到一份炸薯条。

Amin believes there is no corner of the world that can resist the charms of Frito-Lay potato chip.

Amin 相信世界上没有任何一个角落能抗拒炸薯条的诱惑。

Rather, eating a potato chip was an experience unto itself.

其实，吃炸薯条只是代表它本身的一种体验。

Do you mind if I order some beans and potato chips?

那我给你点些青豆和炸薯条吧？

So what does eating potato chips have to do with our larger, more important life decisions?

所以说吃炸薯条和我们更大更重要的生活决定有什么关系？

If 66,807 McDonald's customers opened their lunch bag and found a Big Mac when they had ordered a Quarter Pounder, McDonald's would be a Three Sigma company.

如果有6，210个顾客吃了浸了水的干炸薯条或吃到上错得饭菜，麦当劳就是4σ公司。

Brian : I want to complain about this food. The French fries are soggy.

布莱恩：我要投诉你们的食物，这份炸薯条湿乎乎的。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。