【读新闻学英语】终于知道同事为什么偷吃我的午饭了……

Picture this: You've gone to the effort of packing yourself lunch for work, it might be last night's leftovers, your favourite salad or a just a humble sandwich.

脑补一下：你好不容易给自己装好了一顿工作午餐，它可能是昨晚的剩菜，你最喜欢的沙拉，或者是一块可怜巴巴的三明治。

Leftover：吃剩的饭菜
Humble：简陋的，寒碜

You get into the office, put it in the fridge and then get on with your work, with the thought of your delicious lunch keeping you motivated.

你走进办公室，把午餐放到冰箱里，然后继续干活，因为这份香喷喷的午餐动力十足。

Motivated：有积极性的

When lunch time finally comes around you excitedly rush to the kitchen to devour your much-awaited meal, only to find it has disappeared, never to be seen again.

午饭时间终于到了！你兴奋地搓着小手手，冲到厨房准备饱餐一顿，但是却发现，它不见了！从此消失在地球上……

Devour：吞食，狼吞虎咽地吃

This is a situation that is all too real for many office workers, with a new study revealing that one in three people are guilty of stealing their co-worker's lunch.

这就是许多办公室白领们每天都在经历的事情。一个新的研究揭示，三分之一的员工都偷吃过同事的午餐。

Guilty：有罪的，内疚的

Lunch stealing is apparently a problem in offices all over the world, US television station WCCO reported.

偷吃同事的午餐，显而易见是一个全球性问题，据美国电视台WCCO报道。

The UK based study found that a third of people admitted to taking a colleagues lunch just because they thought it looked better than theirs.

这项基于英国的研究发现，大约有三分之一的人承认偷吃过同事的午餐，仅仅是因为别人的午饭看起来比自己的好吃。

Another 12 per cent claimed they nabbed something from the communal fridge because they were hungry and they didn't bring any of their own food.

另有12%的人声称，他们从共用冰箱偷东西吃，是因为他们很饿，而且他们自己没有带东西吃。

Claim：声称、断言
Nab：抓住、抢夺
Communal：公共的，共有的

A study conducted last year by UK brand Husky Lifestyle revealed that the people most likely to steal food are in a Director role or higher, with 46 per cent of people in this position admitting to knowingly stealing food or drink.

英国品牌Husky Lifestyle去年一项研究显示，最喜欢偷东西吃的是担任主管或者更高职位的人。大约有46%的高管承认自己偷吃过食物，或者偷喝过饮料。

Director：主管、主任、董事

They confessed the most common item they have stolen was milk from the fridge (37 per cent), followed by confectionary such as chips, chocolate and lollies (18 per cent).

他们坦陈，自己最经常偷的是冰箱里的牛奶（37%），紧接着是点心，比如说薯片、巧克力，还有棒棒糖（18%）。

Confess：承认、坦白、忏悔

Confectionary：糕点、糖果

Lolly：棒棒糖

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