I lived in constant fear that misguided humanitarian impulses might lead my captors to vary my monotonous diet, substituting something inedible for the blessed pilaff.

• 我每天惶惶不可终日地深怕关我的家伙基于某种人道主义观念的误导可能会一时冲动改变我单调的伙食，拿其它难以下咽的玩意取代这天幸的盖浇饭。