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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？: D0 B0 ?' Y( K1 A; S
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？
/ L0 h# g7 D+ w/ m+ C oA 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。
- i2 [0 F: Q9 O7 k: H0 o5 [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。 t; r" t; T# L5 j+ U5 Q
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。
4 v7 y1 N6 A$ }$ pMore 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。$ M- O! X& A& A' b. M& P- \0 [# F
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 o8 J! H& {$ j3 ~7 t+ o* _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。1 }7 j9 S4 e- f. b
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：
6 W2 a: K& r1 E& G: `2 Y& s! e" 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。"
. Y6 K& w- j ?( `! z) b"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。”1 c x# M9 X; O2 x" q6 a
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。! m' e) u7 L9 G9 m6 [+ 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。! z1 b3 L' l7 l5 {* T( {
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。
, {6 Y3 k! K/ zwhere 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- l$ M; x' f4 ^. C1 f( A h
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 U+ H% C/ e) A7 |) \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？
3 f- [* b$ r* a- n2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
/ R& Z! p, b9 M+ r8 O. x$ M) m例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
: B) k( J" }' K* E) {" n我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
- u- d) v) H* [- A& K7 _7 o3.from scratch 从头开始8 p( i% @ i+ i
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.
7 i2 {& c5 U' v, C( i9 ~他们从零开始，边学边干。
3 A1 U8 K6 y/ {( [4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
- l) T5 b7 q5 h$ w) s例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
# i" `4 b6 S' e2 z" W远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。
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