减肥瘦身英语口语话题 第26期:午餐吃的丰盛些

 　　Unit 26 Pile it on at lunchtime

　　Unit 26 午餐吃的丰盛些

　　A hearty¹ midday meal can power you through the rest of the dav.Farmers,construction workers and other people whose jobs require hard physical labor² count on a big lunch to give them energy.

　　一顿丰盛的午餐, 可以让你在剩余的一天中充满活力。农民、建筑工人和其他需要体力的劳动者，都是靠着一顿丰盛的午餐来供给他们精力的.

　　If you sit all day at work.you don't use as much energy as someone with an active job，but you still can benefit by making lunch your biggest meal.You’ll be less likely to snack in the afternoon，you'll burn off more calories during the day and your dinner can be smaller.

　　如果你整天都是坐着工作，所消耗的体力就不如那些从事劳动性工作者多，但你仍可把午餐当作一天中最丰盛的一餐，而从中受益.这样子在下午时.你就不大会吃零食。白天里你会消耗掉吏多的卡路里,而且晚餐可以少吃一些。

　　If you do decide to eat a big lunch，you might want to follow it with a walk of 15 minutes or so to counteract³ the sluggishness⁴ that sometimes follows a generous meal.

　　如果你决定吃顿丰盛的午餐.也许可以在饭后散步十五分钟左右.以消除有时候在大餐后会产生的昏昏欲睡现象.

　　健身短语

　　1 .pile it un夸大;夸张(例:The situation isn't so bad as he has described;he seems to have piled it on.情况并未如他描述的那样糟;他似乎夸大了)唯此处"Pile it on at lunchtime."则表"午餐吃得夸张些",喻"午餐多吃些".

　　2.count on... 依赖/仰仗......

　　3.burn off... 燃烧掉...

1 hearty   

adj.热情友好的；衷心的；尽情的，纵情的

参考例句：

• After work they made a hearty meal in the worker's canteen.工作完了，他们在工人食堂饱餐了一顿。
• We accorded him a hearty welcome.我们给他热忱的欢迎。

2 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 counteract   

vt.对…起反作用，对抗，抵消

参考例句：

• The doctor gave him some medicine to counteract the effect of the poison.医生给他些药解毒。
• Our work calls for mutual support.We shouldn't counteract each other's efforts.工作要互相支持，不要互相拆台。

4 sluggishness   

不振，萧条，呆滞；惰性；滞性；惯性

参考例句：

• Such estimate of viscosities do give us some concept of the sluggishness of debris flows. 这种对泥石流粘度的估计确实给我们提供了一些泥石流惰性方面的概念。 来自辞典例句
• The general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends. 那种呆滞的样子吓坏了他的朋友们。 来自互联网