ONE morning last month in an airy hall at the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, the only sound to be heard was a chorus of zestfully inelegant slurping.

上个月，一个空气清新的早晨，在巴西维索萨联邦大学（Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil）宽敞的大厅里，杯测比赛（Cup of Excellence competition）正进行得热火朝天，大家能听到的只有此起彼伏的“啧啧”声。

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Mr Menand, a frequent magazine writer as well as a professor of English, zestfully adopts the contemporary biographical practice of not treating thinkers as disembodied intelligences.

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