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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？, I8 h& Y$ h' U2 x0 Q3 K2 e5 h
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？
7 \1 e: c1 L1 Q$ j( Z0 F# NA 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 N! }. o0 m! T! ]7 }
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。) X% Z* y8 E! ?5 v# `
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。; p6 |4 j9 v. l6 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。
- h9 e8 V( f. m+ rWorryingly, 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。
) l" K8 V x3 Z# _# cThis 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。
! u/ h) t P, G8 LDr 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：8 m$ k' i; `& G# A7 @4 }$ R
" 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。"
& k( | Q( [7 B$ D/ f" 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。”
7 \' i! k0 R5 C- W- S$ G; @% CAnd 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。
: n! w+ \% p" }$ i/ f! U. `8 R lfollowed 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。
7 `7 t' t" Z+ _8 Y0 B) {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。
1 A1 ^9 P! A" e0 K3 W" d8 U" Fwhere 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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/ _- j& I- m2 w* S* w% n, x8 b重点讲解：
# j! R- E* r) r1 h1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐
* @. C" g* c& w2 U7 w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?! P% W5 S& c4 [& k# x1 ]
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？7 {" P8 `5 V/ C+ a. g# `( i6 \
2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
0 O/ a- N1 v' Q8 }6 P+ U7 j% G4 p. R例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
# u$ P; Y4 f; m! b我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
+ l. {. G5 B+ P5 J) J3.from scratch 从头开始
8 o% v) y h1 r+ r例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.
% T( V' o4 ~' v6 `他们从零开始，边学边干。 a2 @4 u6 J* Y5 r* A
4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
7 A( N( M4 |% [8 M: f例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
) ?3 R+ c3 s2 z; R0 o- Q远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。
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