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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？* K9 K# g" N/ `2 h* j# s4 j
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？
* n1 t) R& [" IA 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。
. S# K2 ~ H" eJust 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。( h" Z k+ i- t/ o4 ^0 b
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。
( d; Q$ G3 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。( l! t0 o2 C- P+ S& P I/ C
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。
& L# j2 }! g8 D+ `6 @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。9 n) R' k9 O+ m# z
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：
* N, \6 q) _. O" S' H" l0 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。"
, ^8 r: b. Y" b! k$ i"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。”
% k" P: o/ ^+ s$ u' i& g) 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。
% P7 H0 d1 p; C& H, N) d% Z. gfollowed 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。 B0 z7 E3 P5 b7 p j
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。! C( F7 |& v% g
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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1.ready meal 快餐，即食餐1 }6 L# g/ q0 I3 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?; X7 w+ t( Z# 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？. G% m0 S. D' h Y
2.can't ... be bothered 懒得搭理
D4 G0 A% i8 ]1 N( E* j例句:I can't be bothered with seeing you quarrelling all day long
* {# z5 J7 y/ t, u我不喜欢看见你们成天吵架。
' p1 j* |; X0 k4 _# j5 F% M9 x6 X7 _1 y3.from scratch 从头开始 W2 X' f/ o$ @) w* o
例句：They started from scratch and learned as they went.
* K& k4 z2 F' {- Z他们从零开始，边学边干。* I# r" K& O/ u2 r
4.pose... challenges对...提出挑战
+ E7 H' U0 J. w( X$ ?例句：Undoubtedly tele-immersion will pose new challenges as well.
$ O. a: I8 V2 w" P; t. z远距实境无疑也会产生新的挑战。4 s: S) ^. q" d# t( N6 a4 ^# n( A
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