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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？
% v6 |+ c4 y* l' }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？% |2 x, ]. _. ^; [7 t8 h
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。: z" P) N3 a4 g3 P. W
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。& R' T1 p. N% ?, _, j7 H
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。! b7 k! }7 [1 Y6 S) C
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。
3 ^3 f! i+ @( i( a3 M" sWorryingly, 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。, [( V2 n" B+ v Q$ R
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。
) w0 {& a" c" ?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：
3 S6 f. M8 L9 C7 r& G% n" 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。"1 p& d( Y+ B0 L5 f4 W
"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。”
& V: n* z, N+ _# L! wAnd 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。
" u! d, z' o. T% b! Pfollowed 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。
. n; m) B& A" g+ |. ~0 {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 d$ `! x' n1 l: s, W+ iwhere 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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1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐
}. r5 j4 K2 u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?
$ [3 b: F7 L4 z) [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？
4 {* M. g; j# R' ?# p1 _9 m- }2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理0 Q: j/ K9 H1 S% l
例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
6 A+ H$ g8 x, b' @6 Z/ U" M我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
( g2 p, ]% H! i1 z7 E2 \; p0 D3.from scratch 从头开始
0 R$ u5 P5 I$ B3 N, w# r$ t( ^例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.
! H) O# q0 L4 x# M2 O) G2 `他们从零开始，边学边干。8 _$ A5 Y# o' r' @
4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
3 H+ G% o8 V2 }" \6 _" Q例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.$ C6 _7 x' O$ I1 G4 ~ ]# q
远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。) {" k5 E. c9 A0 p0 }( n. b
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