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Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? 你经常吃冰箱里的即食食品吗？还是自己亲手下厨？* q! x- L# _- e% j4 n
Have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do? 你经常网购而不愿去实体店买东西吗？有什么事情是你懒得做的？
0 i! e( V' y6 e8 l6 zA study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so idle they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs. 一项调查英国人到底有多懒的研究发现，有一半以上的英国人懒得爬两层的楼梯，而选择乘电梯。
! @) v3 \. |0 DJust over 2000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largest health charity. The results were startling. 英国最大的健康慈善组织，纳菲尔德健康中心的独立研究员调查了超过2000人。调查结果令人震惊。
! p# G# f* P: O% @About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up. 大约有六分之一的人表示如果他们的遥控器坏了，他们会一直看一个电视台，而不愿起身去换台。
0 x, I! P( D5 U& y" X; J/ X# jMore than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. 超过三分之一的被调查者说他们不会为赶上公交车而跑几步。5 e* y/ B) d& j8 B
Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them. 而令人担忧的是，在654位有孩子的回答者中，有64%的人说他们因为太累不愿带孩子玩。, n. u$ }* s4 t4 e9 v
This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese before they start school. 这促使报告得出了这样的结论：难怪英国学龄前儿童有六分之一被划定为肥胖儿童。
7 x' d* W$ _; _" Z5 ^( y! RDr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said: 纳菲尔德健康中心的医学主管，萨拉·当西博士，说：; @6 @$ F, W7 \# ^4 r3 _6 k# N& @
" eople need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too. “人们需要让自己更加健康，不仅仅是为了他们自己，还为了他们的家人，朋友，当然还有他们的宠物。"
7 ^ F, t( X! K: K9 H0 @"If we don't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks." “如果我们不开始着手这一问题，整个这一代人的健康情况将恶化到无法完成基本工作的程度。”
/ |& ?9 Z. l/ b+ XAnd Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most indolent city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, 苏格兰最大的城市，格拉斯哥，被冠以英国最懒城市的污名。该城市中被调查的人当中，有75%承认自己没有做足够的锻炼。+ t" V3 a. ^; w) D# L b! z# X- Y
followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%. 紧随其后的是伯明翰和南安普顿，两座城市的人都有67%的人这样回答。
4 J. o9 ^+ K' R( e+ V+ ^The results pose serious challenges for the National Health Service, 这一调查结果给英国国民医疗保健制度提出了很大挑战。
/ \6 x2 K* N: p: P7 D( {& ~8 Qwhere obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year. 在过去的四十年里，与肥胖相关的各种疾病包括心脏病和癌症发病率稳步上升，每年需要花费数十亿的医疗费用。
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1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐
/ U% J( i. W8 B. h$ h# m例句：Will America's soccer moms be as willing to stop their cars to grab a ready meal on the way home as British mums are when they jump off the Tube?! f0 i" X1 u; x9 B. j
虽然在回家的路上，英国母亲一下地铁就会顺手带一份“现成饭”，但美式球员的母亲会特意停车去购买么？
. E9 C4 L0 h# b4 S8 C, o2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理# R) W( J/ V# h( I
例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
, J9 d2 S- K' Z" g& G我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。0 `! O* C t: V- i1 x" Y! f5 h
3.from scratch 从头开始$ E& R* D8 ?: q) j' w( [
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.( F+ D1 c, b1 h) N4 N
他们从零开始，边学边干。6 q1 O& S; c0 P% a) M
4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战/ K- S2 ?1 h7 c; T2 u
例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.$ V [/ v9 U5 V" m, T3 B
远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。 V/ G, q0 D, s+ i7 `/ Z; f
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