讲评-A Victim of the Consumer Crusaders.docVIP

A Victim of the Consumer Crusaders 消费者守护神的牺牲品 /无奈的消费者 I can’t（不敢） eat or drink anything. I can’t go anywhere. I have become a victim of the consumer reporter. Ever since Ralph Nader and his pales started investigating, I have gradually become an anorexia nervosa （厌食症）hermit （hermit不能译成宅男或宅女，后者是自愿而为之，与作者意愿相反）.My friends warn me that I’ve been taking the news too seriously. But if you read the paper and watch television every night, you begin to get the feeling that if the mugger（用“行凶者”范围太大） doesn’t kill you — BOTULISM will! I have ceased eating from a can. The tiniest dent sends me into fits of terror. After all, the New York Times said that seven ounces of botulism bacteria could kill the entire human race. Tuna fish is double jeopardy（金枪鱼使它的风险倍增）. You might avoid the toxic bacteria — but beware of maggots. I started eating hamburgers instead of tuna for lunch, but then I read a story in the New York Post that hamburger meat tested around town showed particles of animal shit （粪便）mashed in it（混有动物的碎屑）, and the spices were spiked with rodent hairs（毛发）. Hot dogs were banished from the luncheon fare（我也不再吃热狗了） following features of franks filled with cancerous chicken wings. （鸡翅含有致癌物质，而不能译为都是用致癌的鸡翅做的）If carcinogenic agents（物质） don’t phase（=hurt） you, one doctor wrote that the nitrate in hot dogs inhibits（抑制…的分泌） one’s sexual hormones. Hormones are another horror. If you’re afraid of blood clots（血栓，而非血块凝结，显得太繁琐） and cancer from ingesting birth control or morning after（名词，=hangover宿醉） pills — just think what happens when you devour a juicy steak from a cow chock（肉牛）–full of hormones to fatten her up. （译为催肥，好于喂肥） Sausage can cause trichinosis. It said so right on the package I bought at the D’Agostino Supermarket. Eggs can give you a heart attack. If this story is making you nervous, don’t take a drink（少喝酒） — cirrhosis of the liver — and don’t pick up that cigarette（别抽烟） — you know what the Surgeon General said. It’s （it指烟盒）on the side of the pack. Rea