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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?8 `( @9 \& R5 Q4 e( r
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?. N, m4 C  i. ]  y- A6 Z1 j: t
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。
) j6 Y( O  `/ l) l: j4 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。( U, f, T. g9 U' o( I+ Y5 U; w
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。
6 ?  D$ I, b( b3 [; f* 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。
, M. z2 }- Q5 @* RWorryingly, 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。
2 F4 f+ ~( ~. [! o: T: ~- EThis 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。
1 e( J* g2 c5 G; [) O# lDr 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:
* f& N2 m# k) N- D; V" l$ U3 C6 k"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。"+ C7 m# R2 Z5 ?8 a) a
"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。”
3 L' Q+ T4 c5 q* y7 d1 gAnd 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。: m4 s# W3 a4 {
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。& f6 o2 I! u! u7 Z- {/ N: @4 x# I
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。
+ T3 ], S  G, _where 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/ Q( T& |# u) U; d$ }

2 w6 x( I$ ?7 A* C9 F重点讲解:
/ p; Y9 Y/ n  [# V/ G2 F1.ready meal 快餐,即食餐
* e2 m( z( X5 N( ^) |' F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?" @5 O7 W/ F3 W3 h- h" P
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?
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2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
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例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long9 H0 Z; M  {+ u% \( L
我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。# z4 q2 Y' [/ n# {. H8 x
3.from scratch 从头开始
: J7 x% g/ z: c  C6 J例句:They started from scratch and learned as they went.
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他们从零开始,边学边干。' E" Y' h6 x: z: ?5 D; V) d/ K
4.pose... challenges...提出挑战3 |# v1 t! S. O
例句:Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.- k$ C6 |  H# o. l" C0 S
远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。& i) e4 P" u: T) }, \( ]5 A
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