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来源：《英语学习》双腿夹紧2012年第06期
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晕头转向 When I was a child growing up in The Netherlands1, I often begged my mother to tell me this story about an experience her family had at the end of World War II.
道是无情胜有情 During the terrible last winter of the German occupation, food was very scarce in The Netherlands. People were so desperately hungry they began to eat small animals and many things not normally considered edible, including tulip bulbs.2 People discovere
d the bulbs could be cooked like potatoes or turnips, or even eaten raw.3
For centuries, my mother’s family, the Van der Veldes, had owned a highly successful tulip business, which provided jobs for many in our village of Ridderkerk. Their bulbs were popular throughout Europe and abroad, and the family name was known far and wide4. But the war shut their business down, and during the winter of hunger, my grandfather, Arnoldus, donated all his tulip bulbs to feed the hungriest villagers.
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