A green salad sprinkled with low-fat cheese, a hardboiled egg and some sliced Turkey wins over a pasta salad.

撒有低脂奶酪的绿色沙拉、一个煮熟的鸡蛋和几片火鸡胜于通心粉沙拉。

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But if it had been Hemingway’s roleto make American writing hardboiled, it was Salinger’s to let it be soft, evenrunny, again.

如果说海明威让美国文学老道冷硬，像个煮过了的鸡蛋，塞林格则让它重新柔软起来，像个溏心鸡蛋。

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On snowy mornings, she eschewed taxis and stuffed hot hardboiled eggs in her pockets to keep her hands warm.

在雪天的早晨她也尽量不坐出租车，而是兜里揣上几个煮鸡蛋暖着手就上路了。

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It is a hardboiled detective story set in an affluent Californian high school where everyone speaks a wonderful mixture of teen slang and 70-year-old pulp lingo.

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The festival's four egg contests include a five-minute hardboiled-egg eating contest, usually winnable with 25, and egg roulette, where contestants smash one of six eggs against their face.

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But unlike so many pretentious works of fiction today, Estleman's hardboiled, Detroit-based tales of intrigue, wrongdoing and, ultimately, justice develop three-dimensional, often unforgettable characters (among them in this book, a Larry Flynt-like pornographer) set in finely wrought, factually described settings.

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