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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？( L1 G! N6 F* n6 b7 j
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？2 d! Z" @ @7 K8 S
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。
p p, M7 i/ ?' s/ Z# 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。
! f* a1 p% }" ~/ g& ^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。2 o, J3 g; A w
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。
9 J* `+ k- r9 R8 I0 BWorryingly, 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。
* ^6 g# B0 O. `: M) D" _9 TThis 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 r- P6 T5 V/ j7 ~) g% t# n% \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：' `, _; ~0 t* m1 k, S
" 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。"
- s) g9 L1 J' ?* t0 X# u"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。”
7 W* o; R9 D. k. Q" H; a L% MAnd 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。
- }0 l9 v; i* T8 D3 [2 V5 Afollowed 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 L, z1 q$ ]) t* W
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。
& i. M N- h7 v% o# 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。8 ]# a7 j, W9 k( `4 b7 H7 b
' [, W8 t V: j1 i" ~重点讲解：; v/ F* h4 w3 N6 A' ]- C, Q
1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐$ ?% l2 p+ R- v; T% _! u/ l
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% F' {+ f1 b" S: G C( H
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？
! B( T$ f* _" Z/ j- n! O7 `2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
3 b# }+ @7 h% B% t6 ?3 U例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long2 \1 S/ V' p- ]% P1 F
我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
: g$ V+ ?% D; j/ T5 G' B3.from scratch 从头开始
6 n; T! D3 z' {3 G3 t) S例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.
+ d4 V- S) D' K他们从零开始，边学边干。& |- i8 Y. t. \
4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战* }# |# ~% C6 |3 t; u
例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
5 j9 Y" a9 f* {4 K/ d远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。/ D, Z. R2 P9 w4 X
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