One Chicago woman, for example, discovered that daily lunches with co-workers cost her $ 2,000 a year; she decided to take lunch to work instead.

例如，一位来自芝加哥的女性发现，每天与同事共进午餐，一年就要花掉2000美元，于是她决定带午饭去上班。

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Then everything changed in the year of 1950. You might as well call it the Year of the Lunch Box, thanks in large part to a genius move by a Nashville based manufacturer, Aladdin Industries.

然后，一切都在1950年发生了变化。你不妨称其为“午餐盒之年”，这在很大程度上要归功于纳什维尔的一家制造商阿拉丁工业公司的一个天才之举。

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Kids would beg for a new lunch box every year to keep up with the newest characters, even if their old lunchbox was perfectly usable.

尽管旧的饭盒还完全能用，但孩子们每年还是会求着要买新饭盒，跟上最新角色的潮流。

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It's a good thing Nathan Gelder knew the universal sign for choking when he was having lunch last year with his friend Kaiden Condos.

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