“如果你看电视时吃薯片，学校午餐时做什么都没用，”他说。

"If you're eating chips in front of the television, anything the school lunches are going to do is not going to lessen that," he said.

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他说的对。你的球队已经被取消了参赛资格。现在你做什么都没用了。

He's right. The team already forfeited. There's nothing you can do.

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最痛苦的在于，我们这些做母亲的可以警告、劝说甚至恳求孩子们别去做什么，但等他们到了20多岁，我们说什么都没用。

'the most painful part is that we mothers can warn, cajole and plead with them but by the time they're in their twenties, we're hard-pressed to change their minds,' she says.

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最痛苦的在于，我们这些做母亲的可以警告、劝说甚至恳求孩子们别去做什么，但等他们到了20多岁，我们说什么都没用。

'the most painful part is that we mothers can warn, cajole and plead with them but by the time they're in their twenties, we're hard-pressed to change their minds,' she says.

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