As a result they then predicted that if they were to miss the train later that day they would feel worse than did other people who had recalled less disastrous times they had missed the train.

结果，这些人推测如果在那一天后来还会错过列车，他们的感觉就要比那些回忆起不那么具有灾难性地错失列车经历的人们要更糟糕。

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That would be disastrous for PepsiCo, which, even though it gets less than 1% of its sales from schools, relies on the exposure to help create young fans who will become lifelong munchers.

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