During breaks, I like to hang out with my friends in the school yard.

在课间休息时间，我喜欢和我的朋友们在学校的操场上玩儿。

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But as he enters the school yard, he notices something has changed.

但当他走进学校的大院时，他发现这里有些变样了。

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Standing in the school yard, blinking in the sun, the boy revelled in his new status.

站在校园里，他的双眼闪闪发光，沉迷于他的新取得的地位。

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The Harvard Chicago study, however, which looked at fast-food restaurants generally, found that the percentage of schools with at least one fast-food restaurant within easy access of the school yard is the same regardless of the level of commercialization of the neighborhood.

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Bullies used to be restricted to the school yard, and the lunch room, and behind the gym, but now you can think your child is locked in their room doing their homework when in fact they could be getting bullied back their on social networking sites.

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At the sidewalk he stopped, put down his case next to the sugar maple, wiped his jacket sleeve across his forehead, and gazed up the block as if he were the new boy in school, getting ready to cross the school yard, where faces were already turning to stare at him.

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