I never expected to hear the 'D' word applied to my lifetime, although my mother, who was a small child during the Great Depression, habitually recycles buttons and sometimes even zippers.

我从未想过这辈子会亲身经历一次“大萧条”，而曾经历上世纪三十年代大萧条的我的母亲（她那时还只是个小姑娘）养成了回收利用旧扣子、甚至是旧拉链的习惯。

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And Siemens, a German electronics and engineering giant, recently launched an ultrasound scanner which allows expectant mothers to see their unborn child in 3-d.

德国的电子和工程巨头西门子，最近发布了一套超声波扫描仪，可以让孕妇看到待产胎儿的3维影像。

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D. Withholding dessert is a form of punishment, and is not an effective means of encouraging a child to eat. It also may upset the child.

限制甜点是一种惩罚方式，而且不是鼓励儿童吃饭的一种有效方法，它还可能让儿童感到沮丧。

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They say exposure at levels common among children in the United States may increase the chances that a child will be diagnosed with A.D.H.D.

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you'd look around ten to fifteen thousand pounds a year, per child.

你需要准备一万到一万五英镑一年，这只是一个小孩的学费。

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If social services do take away her new baby, then it will become Child D.

BBC: NEWS | Health | 'Please don't take my baby'

And they've gotten nasty looks from parents on Skylar's T-ball team after her coach requested that a child who'd been eating nuts put them away and wash his hands.

CNN: Kids with nut allergies feel teased, excluded

As a child, I'd imagine what it must have felt like, a few hundred years earlier, coming to Cologne to see this dome and these stained-glass windows even as everyone for miles around lived in earthen huts.

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