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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？
- ]+ x* h. u( i$ z7 ~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？
" O" H5 i4 |% x! V" U" r. ~A 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。
: [7 d4 Z- z2 |7 T. C$ 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。
7 h/ j4 i, I1 ]: E0 h' nAbout 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。8 u. s, J( g7 t$ O
More 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。3 i1 `! ~$ U% J, l
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。
- P: U6 Z; ]' T- l: gThis 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。
6 A4 Q! j" A5 QDr 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：
/ Q3 B) U5 j# H5 L! U/ Z" 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。"0 Y/ M* C; H3 B
"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 k0 F$ w# G7 H. f7 w
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。
3 o3 S0 p- i& J. Cfollowed 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。2 k) @; P3 @( u. H/ R
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。
+ T5 u# R# T9 Pwhere 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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; T+ @6 U4 `2 x/ }- m# n重点讲解：
# b: g9 U- @: t$ A' {1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐
6 F2 D) |6 P7 p4 r6 X% q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?
/ v- S e: |( S2 N g: F* m+ g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？
# y- v7 @; c+ k2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
+ d. C! q o% @例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
) W. X; V4 ~. h" i5 ]我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。, u+ C& _: @, P9 k$ |. ~' O- D
3.from scratch 从头开始! y4 K+ f( J* W
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.
/ w; h; `- |' U3 S7 d' ?' a他们从零开始，边学边干。
+ U. @0 U" A0 x& G6 P& D4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
, P8 R4 u+ |2 i3 p例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.9 m, p: Q+ X. U5 s& ~
远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。) r) }/ m* V( n) |" l @( X. [
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