What are you most scared of? Perhaps snakes send a chill down your spine(让人脊背发凉). Or heights leave your knees weak. Peanuts may sound like an odd source of phobia, but they have taken on an absurd bogeyman quality for me since my daughter was taken to hospital by ambulance after eating peanut butter when she was six months old.(花生听起来可能是奇怪的恐惧来源，但自从我女儿六个月大时吃了花生酱被救护车送医后，它们对我来说就成了荒唐的怪物。) Just the sight of a bowl on a pub bar, or their shells discarded on the pavement, can raise my heart rate – even when I’m not with her.
你最害怕什么？也许蛇会让你脊背发凉，或者恐高让你双腿发软。花生听起来可能是一种奇怪的恐惧来源，但自从我女儿六个月大时吃了花生酱后被救护车送进医院，花生对我来说就成了一种荒唐的“怪物”。只要看到酒吧吧台上的一碗花生，或是人行道上丢弃的花生壳，我的心率就会升高——即使女儿不在身边。
Nowhere is the sight of peanuts more confronting(令人不安的，令人正视的) than at 30,000ft, especially now when millions are jetting back(乘飞机返回) from their holidays. Travelling with a severely allergic child can be a nightmare for all sorts of reasons, but the idea you could be sat next to a passenger consuming the very thing that has hospitalised them is its own kind of hell.(带着严重过敏的孩子旅行因各种原因如同噩梦，但想到可能坐在一个吃着曾让孩子住院的食物的乘客旁边，那更是独特的地狱。)
没有什么地方比在3万英尺高空看到花生更令人心惊胆战了，尤其是在数百万人度假返程的当下。带着严重过敏的孩子旅行，本身就因各种原因如同噩梦，但一想到你可能坐在一个正在吃曾让孩子住院的那种食物的乘客旁边，那更是一种独特的地狱。
Most airlines will make an announcement asking passengers to avoid consuming nuts if you let them know that somebody in your party has a severe nut allergy. But I brace for impact(做好冲击准备) when these announcements are piped out. On almost every flight there is at least one passenger who sighs or makes some inane(愚蠢的，空洞的) comment, loud enough for everyone to hear, about how annoying it is.
大多数航空公司会发布公告，要求乘客避免食用坚果——前提是你告知他们同行者中有严重坚果过敏者。但当这些公告播出时，我总会做好心理准备。几乎每次航班上，至少会有一位乘客叹气，或说些无聊的评论，声音大到所有人都能听见，抱怨这有多烦人。