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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？
. ~6 g1 i& X8 K. n6 [' K" ~$ G3 ]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？
5 M$ d% G: @' Q$ ~) XA 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 C; r2 g) r! C+ j) M: K- }( n6 h7 o
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。/ G# \3 z( N7 ~$ o7 L7 r
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。
5 ~; \6 O. k: |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。7 {4 M2 O$ H: N! R- Q; |
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。$ D% x' ~8 e) O7 m
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。
4 c7 W. l4 [6 s5 \. d' c3 ?Dr 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：' M1 v5 u; Q. A" O& u0 o" q0 d
" 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 l7 F8 j5 A+ ^0 m1 ~
"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。”! P4 I5 @5 Z! Z* H
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。4 }1 ^+ V' e u- s( E: [# m
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。
% X7 N4 {- u5 yThe 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。
' `. L1 [+ z S2 O4 T6 l" Awhere 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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重点讲解：
3 G! g+ {/ `/ E1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐
; v2 w, Q# s: ?4 \+ A4 C; z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?) `" ]1 n9 g4 Q. U( b5 ]
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？$ r$ T O g' e) E
2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
8 F; d& J: X0 e' h例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
5 y7 q* ]8 A# x$ G) M6 x我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。$ Y! f# y' x% R0 l
3.from scratch 从头开始/ a$ H: T# U7 S2 v$ s0 H
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went., f, y2 x4 \# {. A7 p+ C3 h8 M6 b
他们从零开始，边学边干。
- U! U* ?1 P! z: b4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战6 Y0 e' E3 a6 ?( T$ g' x
例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
' X6 C1 _7 @) O2 @& L6 |远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。# {3 z& ?( Z/ Z7 C2 K/ ?& `, B( N
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