减肥瘦身英语口语话题 第127期:做个早起的运动者

 　　Unit 127：Be an early-bird exerciser

　　第127单元：做个早起的运动者

　　Researchers at the Southwest Health Institute¹ in Phoenix² compared people who work out in the morning to people who do so in the evening.

　　凤凰城西南健康中心的研究员在比较了早上和晚上运动的人之后作了以下的结论：

　　The results:Three-fourths of those who got moving in the morning were still working out a year later,while half of the evening exercisers had pooped out.

　　有四分之三在早上运动的人一年后仍会持续运动，而晚上运动的人则有一半因感疲累而放弃。

1 institute   

n.学会，协会；讲习会，讲座；vt.建立，设立；开始

参考例句：

• He thought of trying for a position in a research institute.他想方设法在一个研究机关找个工作。
• He gave a talk to the Women's Institute on his travels in Asia.他就他的亚洲之旅为妇女协会做了非正式演讲。

2 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。