He put his finger down his throat to grab the meat, but he couldn't reach it.

他把手指伸进喉咙去抓那块肉，但是够不着。作呕也不起作用。

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Later, during a lull, she slipped into a grocery and, in the reflection from the metal meat case, re-pinned her thick black hair and rubbed her teeth with her finger until they shone.

后来，趁着拍摄间隙，她溜进一家食品店，对着盛肉的金属盒映出的人影，把漆黑浓密的头发重新用卡子别好，拿手指擦亮牙齿。

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"I've never used these for food," she said, kneading it between her index finger and thumb, a chef inspecting an unfamiliar piece of meat.

“我没用过这些食材，”她拿食指和拇指捏着，像位大厨检视不熟悉的肉片。

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And Charles Darwin actually, who was an astute observer of human behavior, tells a nice story to illustrate this: how "a native touched with his finger some cold preserved meat and plainly showed disgust at its softness whilst I felt utter disgust at my food being touched by a naked savage though his hands did not appear dirty."

达尔文，对人类行为观察入微，他有一个故事很好地解释了反感：,“一个土著用手指碰冷腌肉,那种软软的质地让他感到很反感,而让我感无无比反感的是我的食物,被一个没穿衣取的土著碰了，虽然他的手不脏“

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