The basis of their diet is white bread and margarine, corned beef, sugared tea, and potatoes—an appalling diet.
他们基本的食物是很糟糕的：白面包夹黄油，咸牛肉，加糖的茶，还有土豆。
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The wastage was astonishing; great dishes of beef, and bucketfuls of broad and vegetables, were pitched away like rubbish, and then defiled with tea-leaves.