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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？ G h+ A" r% Q. B9 ~9 m
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？
1 v4 Z H: g0 E' {, w! w$ P+ NA 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。+ W6 m; ^% h# a3 Q
Just 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。/ X' c- K# N7 \1 f7 M
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。
) z7 q |# y% `# H9 z/ @( yMore 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。
9 \+ V! U% r9 k; ]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。! w; n8 M7 l3 w) a$ E0 M4 h
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。
% M+ Z% t% U. p' v4 uDr 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：! X. I3 C0 u- O' x2 @: U
" 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。"; k3 Q( l! U6 b A; z- a& M9 l
"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。”
# k3 S+ r% g% Z& _And 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。, B. w/ y) }9 m9 S. Y+ @# Z) A
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。3 V" P7 x% K' s2 i8 ?3 `& T
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。
2 T; q- q! T/ ]0 f/ H Xwhere 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。# a: J8 q, `; {5 C1 }1 |' E
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重点讲解：
6 J9 e! V* z8 C% e' p. V1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐8 v( ]. \7 D: C9 {. B
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?
. O' R$ g; l: u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？
! s1 k5 c% S1 V, B1 e2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理 W* p6 Q; p0 b# T: a: \
例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long" W G) w& ]% v; }
我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
3 d9 ?; e2 j; _1 V. F! N! C0 ^, a3.from scratch 从头开始
7 f: e/ [5 O3 m0 L: e例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.# l9 c4 W% L3 y4 a% \9 L$ @9 A
他们从零开始，边学边干。
1 Q. m" p; D+ b4 n/ u+ ~6 n' y' {4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
a+ F" r+ i8 T+ d. ~% L, U例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
3 ]* ^8 J: t9 q7 }1 i远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。3 W) `6 @3 \- Z0 a% ?$ q
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