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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？
O' E3 _$ _5 P5 v- Q& WHave 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？% @; D4 H. `2 @8 [
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。
. [1 X- y/ s( L9 A+ 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。( f3 {4 F) l1 D l
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。9 v0 R" n- g+ k1 q9 N5 w) U# |
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。# ]/ \/ f8 ?% a. `0 O) ?/ z
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。
) @- y, D% ?- ?8 i2 NThis 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。- A5 R5 r4 k9 \7 O, ]# 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：4 k$ H V6 _" y
" 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。"! R. R9 O; R4 R- _1 @) 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。”
8 X8 z/ |7 z9 \* Y* f! VAnd 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。# D D0 P; U( A, o* [5 z1 U
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。
/ H* {: F, D B/ HThe 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。4 ~+ a4 {' ` ?' n# F- x0 C+ u% w
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。
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4 f0 f, r, h" m" {. Z1 s+ g1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐/ w# t; z: o! h0 G, o) {) w' X% T- [
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?! X1 N% K# p1 g/ k2 {; G
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？" `. Z5 }5 @7 [8 Y+ K/ R
2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
% A/ P7 v) b1 {例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long2 h* {9 q- C( R+ l% P
我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
, O5 M+ U8 a: i& ]* S. Y3.from scratch 从头开始4 R" c2 ^* `9 X$ E$ K
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.2 ^. J/ Q% K1 Z; q6 W* p6 k
他们从零开始，边学边干。1 v: W$ _$ |3 s* e+ P
4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
0 ^2 Y5 b. T+ p) F1 V+ \例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
1 G$ m& d8 R' d; z$ \# o s远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。
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