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John Robbins From ice cream prince to vegetarian activist
2003.07.27

You’re heir（1）to an ice cream empire（2）of 31 flavors.（3）In your backyard there is a swimming pool in the shape of an ice cream cone.（4） Ahead of you is a life of comfort. What do you do?
你是三十一種口味的冰淇淋王國的繼承人；在你家後院，有一個形狀像冰淇淋甜筒的游泳池；你未來的生活優渥舒適。如果這樣，你會怎麼做？

If you’re John Robbins, the only son of Baskin-Robbins founder（5） Irving Robbins, you choose to walk away from that life of great wealth to "pursue（6）the dream of a society [that] respects and lives in harmony（7）with all life forms."（8）
如果你是約翰．羅賓斯，３１冰淇淋創辦人爾文．羅賓斯的獨子，你會選擇離開富裕的生活，「追求一個夢想，希望社會能尊敬所有生命形式、與之和諧共存。」

Like most kids, young John loved ice cream. However, he always wondered about its health effects,（9）especially after his uncle Burt Baskin died of heart disease（10）at the age of 54.
如同大多數的兒童，約翰小時候也很愛吃冰淇淋。但是，他向來對於它對健康的影響很感興趣，特別是在他的舅舅伯特．巴斯金在五十四歲時死於心臟病之後。

Studying at Berkeley in the 1960s, he also became concerned about the environmental（11）damage（12）caused by cattle farming（13）and the inhumane（14）conditions suffered by billions（15）of animals.

在一九六○年代他在柏克萊唸書時，也開始關心養牛業對環境造成的損害，以及數十億隻動物受到的不人道待遇。

He decided to turn his back on（16）the world’s largest ice cream company. He built a one-room log cabin（17）on a little island in Canada in 1969 and lived there for 10 years with his wife Deo. He became a vegetarian and began writing.
他決定離開世上最大的冰淇淋公司。一九六九年，他在加拿大的一座小島上蓋了一棟只有一個房間的小木屋，和他太太狄歐在那裡住了十年。他成為素食主義者，並且開始寫作。

His first book, Diet（18）for a New America (1987), sold over 1 million copies. Eloquent（19）and well-documented,（20）it became the bible（21）of the vegetarian movement.
他的第一本著作《新美國飲食》（一九八七年）賣了一百萬本以上。具有說服力的文筆和豐富的文獻研究，使它成為素食主義運動的聖經。

Nowadays, Robbins is known as one of the world’s foremost（22） authorities（23）on diet, health, and the environment.（24）He lectures（25）widely and continues writing out of his solar-powered（26）home in California.
目前羅賓斯被譽為世上首屈一指的飲食、健康和環境權威之一。他四處發表演說，並繼續在加州他那棟使用太陽能的家裡從事寫作。