减肥瘦身英语口语话题 第136期:结伴散步

 　　Unit 136 Walk with a pal¹

　　Unit 136 结伴散步

　　As part of their hospital exercise program,a group of men were assigned² to walk every day.A study following their progress after they left the hospital found that the men who walked with their wives were twice as likely to continue their program for a year as those men who walked alone.

　　一群男人依照医院的运动计划被指定要每天散步。在一项追踪他们出院后是否继续运动的研究中得知，那些和妻子一起散步的人继续散步一年的可能性是那些独自散步者的两倍。

1 pal   

n.朋友，伙伴，同志；vi.结为友

参考例句：

• He is a pal of mine.他是我的一个朋友。
• Listen,pal,I don't want you talking to my sister any more.听着，小子，我不让你再和我妹妹说话了。

2 assigned   

adj.选定的；被布置的

参考例句：

• But read-only values are different,in that they are assigned at runtime.但是只读的值是不同的，因为它们是在运行时被赋值的。