On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat.
有一次我们去旅行，当时我10岁。我在车后的座椅上翻来覆去。我的祖父正在开车，我的祖母坐在副驾驶座上。
She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell. At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage, figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending.
在旅途中，她总是在抽烟，我讨厌烟味。那时的我，会找各种机会来做运算。我会算一加仑汽油能让我们走多远，还会算一些跟买菜开支有关的无聊运算。
I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life. I think it might have been two minutes per puff.
我一直有听说禁烟运动。我不记得具体细节，但是，广告上说的大概是，每吸一口烟，就会让人短命几分钟，可能大概是2分钟。
At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per day, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on.
反正，我决定要给我的祖母算笔账。我推算她每天抽烟的数量，每支烟要吸几口，等等。
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