You should allow a little time after a meal for the food to digest.

饭后你应该留点时间让食物消化。

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For others, it was the first time to eat a Thanksgiving meal.

对其他人来说，这是他们第一次吃感恩节大餐。

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When you sit down with your family to eat a meal, have you ever wondered when and where people used chopsticks for the first time?

当你和家人坐下来吃饭时，你有没有想过人们第一次使用筷子是在什么时候、什么地方？

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Well it has to do with our distance from food, our psychological and physical distance from food, and the fact that we don't appreciate it as much as we do because it's everywhere all the time and we've been trained to eat outside of the normal meal times.

我想这和我们与食物之间的距离有关,包括与食物之间的心理距离和身体上距离,事实上,我们没有给予食物足够的重视,因为食物随手可得,无处不在,而且我们都习惯在非用餐时间吃东西

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After working late for a few years in a row and trying every takeout place that would deliver to my apartment, I decided that cooking was probably the most legal, moral, and pragmatic way to spice up meal-time.

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And also take the time to genuinely thank your interviewers for their time and the meal, both as they are paying the check and as you leave the restaurant.

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Given the busy lifestyles, parents have fewer opportunities to be with their children at meal time.

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