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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？1 @0 F8 N; O4 Z/ 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？: b: {: o$ p' G' o: z
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。
& j8 K- U7 s3 O6 A' G5 f) S% pJust 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。
: @( o% o7 S% v9 \% LAbout 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 h+ E2 [. T; i' C& |% j# o6 FMore 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。' s" f% V+ b* q1 Y+ O7 |" I: l# ~4 t
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。4 _. T/ |/ T; M6 F- l7 f. 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。
$ w. b% H) e' ?! o9 IDr 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：
, f5 I6 r6 N3 G0 e c, U$ l" 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。"
% \' P8 N$ m' o- B0 m+ j"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 Q/ K& m+ X, p* C( `8 LAnd 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。
( X$ \# `4 n- ~$ M$ k) C* Dfollowed 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。8 _$ g; _( d' M8 i2 E' k8 M. J7 D5 Q
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。! e, [, ?6 {3 g5 e5 m' I v
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。' [* x4 Y9 i! k% [' A: ]7 H E
: ~# i( K' H1 Y {% g8 B重点讲解：
5 Y0 }5 ]7 B) V. C9 s1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐
2 Z" K6 l8 _ v# X4 _ `) A2 u: v& S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?
. t5 ^ v; y- A; f4 B& [. ^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？( `6 X; m1 O, b& a, ?+ z& D) x
2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理) c7 A% { m. g
例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
$ c. `, m- D& s! Z! B r: L5 j7 `3 g% B我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
) k" s* a* m8 |4 E! M3.from scratch 从头开始1 ^9 j. m6 c2 [$ m$ t# r% ~( r y9 s
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.
* E) p( K( S/ C E9 a+ q0 {他们从零开始，边学边干。
- _! U4 ^3 y' P4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战& a0 B8 w, J( T5 O
例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
2 p1 v; H! j" q4 d8 t# j远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。/ m* `0 o8 {- H. X$ i
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