The book starts by describing a famous experiment: The Marshmallow (软糖) Test.

这本书首先描述了一个著名实验：软糖测试。

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Here is a famous experiment in the book: The Marshmallow Test.

书中有一个著名的实验：棉花糖实验。

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In the experiment, each child was left alone in a room for fifteen minutes with a marshmallow on a table in front of them.

在这个实验中，每个孩子都独自待在一个房间内15分钟，在他们面前的桌子上放有棉花软糖。

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In the current economic crisis, a lot of economists have wondered if what we have going on is the marshmallow experiment writ large.

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