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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？0 F8 J9 U* @% f. }
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？. T4 P, O# {8 A: F
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。
4 c* F; s1 k5 A6 ~5 t: t+ 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。
" N2 |4 i; \) aAbout 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。) C7 F( I. G' S# I4 p
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。
" B; N T2 h5 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。
7 h g7 e" x6 V3 X' t$ OThis 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 Y4 w+ s8 R0 J C8 R3 K7 }6 n* S
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：/ j7 x, J6 {- L7 |7 Z- A
" 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。"! q8 Q* U* o3 b& T
"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。”
* }( Q( _1 D( l! HAnd 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。' ]& Z2 x% t M B" c2 G4 s6 W
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。
9 f6 g( V! o, B" g/ ^2 y/ [% aThe 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。* r6 @. v5 r: t; P5 e d0 A3 @
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。6 `( }) Y; h5 H1 N0 I( e( q
& a9 c, `3 E( H ], @/ R3 s重点讲解：
/ R% d# |8 i$ r8 _ f; ~1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐* q) E& H/ X1 x. K7 g7 y1 I
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 Q; `" `1 ]' j& H8 G1 h+ g8 y
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+ g% V) w! f* d. m _" B2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理1 R* Y N; @7 k
例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long/ \( N8 _8 L) b j1 X( G
我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
& T* E- ?) |+ H; K2 e9 a3.from scratch 从头开始$ N3 a5 Z7 k; }$ {/ c! i0 T3 ~2 Z
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went./ t3 `: u5 N- @' J
他们从零开始，边学边干。8 h" {, @, V4 J. w' f2 u& n
4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
( r9 \# P8 g! b例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
c" w$ i3 B: q8 P远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。
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