NPR边听边练62:体重与健康

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　　一、泛听建议：

　　1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。

　　2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。

　　3、复述新闻。

　　One of the experts who takes issue with Flegal's conclusions is Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health. He's read her new paper and says he's not buying it.This study is really a pile of rubbish and no one should _1_ their time reading it.

　　Willet says it's not helpful to look simply at how peoples BMI's or body mass index influence their _2_ , as this paper did, without knowing something about people's health or fitness. Some people are thin because they're ill, so, of course they're at higher risk of dying.

　　The study doesn't tease this apart.Also, he says the analysis does not _3_ the bigger, more important issues of quality of life. If an overweight person does live longer, is he or she living with chronic¹ diseases?

　　We have a _4_ other literature showing that people are gain weight or are overweight, have increased risk of diabetes², stroke, heart,stroke, many cancers, and many other conditions.

　　Willett says for listeners _5_ who want to know whether their body weight is a problem, one thing to do - rather than comparing your BMIto those around you - is to think about what you weighed when you were 20 years old.

　　For most people, our ideal weight - if we weren't seriously overweight at age 20 - is about what we weighed then. And that's why weight change is a good number to _6_ , because it can be an early warning sign.That you're on the path to more weight gain.

　　Now, not everyone's convinced the new paper is rubbish. Dr. Steven Hymsfield, of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton³ Rouge⁴, says there are a couple of scenarios⁶ in which extra body weight might help people live longer.If you _7_ vulnerable bone, like the hip⁷, that having a little extra fat there might protect you from hip fracture.

　　Or, he says, if an illness leaves you _8_ eat, extra body fat could be useful. Hymsfield acknowledges this is just speculation⁸. He says while this paper won't end the debate over whether a little extra body fat could be a good thing, he says it does show that the relationship between weight and health may be more complicated than just a simple calculation.

　　词汇解析：

　　1、Rubbish：n. 垃圾，废物；废话adj. 毫无价值的

　　eg :Let's wheel the rubbish out.

　　咱们把垃圾推出去吧。

　　2、tease vt. 取笑；戏弄；梳理；

　　eg:He teased me mercilessly about going Hollywood.

　　他无情地取笑我想去好莱坞。

　　eg:Her hair was teased until it stood out and around her face.

　　她的头发被梳得直垂在脸旁。

　　3、chronic diseases：慢性病

　　4、BMI 身体质量指数 Body Mass Index

　　5、scenariosn. 情节；脚本；情景介绍（scenario⁵的复数）

　　eg: The conflict degenerating⁹ into civil war is everybody's nightmare scenario.

　　这场冲突恶化成内战成为每个人的恶梦。

　　1、waste 2、risk of death 3、address 4、huge amount of 5、out there

　　6、keep an eye on 7、fall and fall on 8、unable to

1 chronic   

adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的

参考例句：

• Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
• Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。

2 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
• Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。

3 baton   

n.乐队用指挥杖

参考例句：

• With the baton the conductor was beating time.乐队指挥用指挥棒打拍子。
• The conductor waved his baton,and the band started up.指挥挥动指挥棒，乐队开始演奏起来。

4 rouge   

n.胭脂，口红唇膏；v.(在…上)擦口红

参考例句：

• Women put rouge on their cheeks to make their faces pretty.女人往面颊上涂胭脂，使脸更漂亮。
• She didn't need any powder or lip rouge to make her pretty.她天生漂亮，不需要任何脂粉唇膏打扮自己。

5 scenario   

n.剧本，脚本；概要

参考例句：

• But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
• This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。

6 scenarios   

n.[意]情节；剧本；事态；脚本

参考例句：

• Further, graphite cores may be safer than non-graphite cores under some accident scenarios. 再者，根据一些事故解说，石墨堆芯可比非石墨堆芯更安全一些。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• Again, scenarios should make it clear which modes are acceptable to users in various contexts. 同样，我们可以运用场景剧本来搞清楚在不同情境下哪些模式可被用户接受。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

7 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

8 speculation   

n.思索，沉思；猜测；投机

参考例句：

• Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
• There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。

9 degenerating   

衰退，堕落，退化( degenerate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He denied that some young people today were degenerating. 他否认现在某些青年在堕落。
• Young people of today are not degenerating. 今天的青年并没有在变坏。