孩提时代，尼克·科恩就被教导有些地方的桔子绝不能吃：南非的（因为那里的种族隔离），西班牙的（因为弗朗哥的法西斯主义），以色列的（因为他们侵占别人的领土）还有弗罗里达的（因为他母亲很讨厌尼克松）。

AS A child Nick Cohen was not allowed to eat oranges from South Africa (apartheid), Spain (Franco's fascism), Israel (occupation) or Florida (his mother detested Nixon).

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打个比方，他说，想象一下，某天在麦迪森广场花园里，纽约尼克斯队和格拉斯哥流浪者队同时开赛会是怎样的景象。

But one parallel, he said, is imagining what it is like at Madison Square Garden when the Knicks and the Rangers play on the same day.

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他循线找到布朗克斯区的农民，而农民以为哥普尼克想要买鸟来养，得知作者想要弄死它很不开心。

The Bronx farmer he has tracked down assumes that Mr Gopnik wants to buy the bird to raise it; he is not amused to learn that the author wants it dead.

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