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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？
+ O9 y: E' {8 v) B/ Z: x- QHave 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？
9 i+ S' P2 |8 J( \4 j: ^5 M! `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。
/ Y a- _+ o {" y. X0 Y0 V" i0 ZJust 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。
# {$ y% j8 @8 IAbout 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。: R& s" L* [* i' l* m" L
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。! G. A7 }. |! E6 Q. ^, P. W
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。
2 ?4 \; F1 `& @1 A# s8 b% dThis 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。
0 _7 P% l; K t- H& v! s: D- ZDr 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：
1 {5 z, T0 i4 S6 b6 e! Q% }% T" 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。"
. ^& ~; s9 {7 ~7 h7 l. L: E) U! f"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。”
2 U2 R! ?$ `; N+ _7 ^+ J- q9 }9 }And 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。' V, @. L* S2 R, x! H
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。
7 }! c) [% T% ]2 CThe 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。
* t, W* K. t: Kwhere 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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重点讲解：
* Y, e5 R+ K& `6 ]0 p" \; u4 m. u1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐
5 r0 T2 B7 i# I! k1 [1 [& j! Z5 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?0 C* Y8 {+ |8 q$ T
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？
% e; f. @( H# m7 u& g- ?/ }$ f2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
# ?9 F0 c6 X$ L8 d: D例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
/ f7 T0 t7 y* g; q我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
' P' j/ g! e$ c- K1 t3.from scratch 从头开始1 D, Z( r/ g4 t- x6 ~+ N
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.6 m2 `7 E0 ~3 z- v: U) F
他们从零开始，边学边干。
, u0 [/ q/ [1 D7 d$ Q0 T% y4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
# }7 i; h4 Z# q6 P, K/ S$ k( g例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.5 q. v( A1 E5 }- S; d6 u. f
远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。
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