A World Bank report estimates that a quarter of working hours are spent chewing and that Yemenis spend money on qat instead of food for their often malnourished families.

世界银行的一份报告估算也门人把四分之一的工作时间都花在咀嚼上，把钱花在咔特上而不是食物上，以致常出现营养不良的家庭。

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And the Yemeni habit of chewing a leaf called qat, a mild stimulant not conducive to clear thinking or dynamism, is almost as pervasive as ever.

也门人习惯咀嚼一种叫跨特的树叶，这种树叶是温和的兴奋剂，对清晰的思考和力本说没有助益，这个习惯几乎和以往一样普遍。

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World Bank report estimates that a quarter of working hours are spent chewing and that Yemenis spend money on qat instead of food for their often malnourished families.

世界银行的一份报告估算也门人把四分之一的工作时间都花在咀嚼上，把钱花在咔特上而不是食物上，以致常出现营养不良的家庭。

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This was no tribal dispute to be settled, Yemeni style, by amicable negotiation over glasses of sweet tea and chewing narcotic qat.

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Qat, the mildly euphoria-inducing leaf that most Yemeni men while away their afternoons chewing, is one powerful pacifier.

ECONOMIST: Yemen