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听力文本
Six of the seven countries with the highest obesity rates are English-speaking nations. This is according to a new report from the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development). The country at the top of the list is the USA. This is followed by Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. The OECD looked at 33 different countries. The other 26 countries were non-English speaking. The ten slimmest countries included Japan, Korea, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden. Health experts are now wondering why English-speaking countries top the world’s obesity league. One theory is that they are all copying an American lifestyle; people eat a lot of fast food and a lot of it is in sizes considerably larger than those found in the rest of the world.
The OECD report contains some interesting statistics. Australia has the fastest growing obesity rates. They are expected to rise by another 15 per cent over the next decade. This compares to an increase of five per cent in South Korea. Education makes a big difference to weight in America and Sweden. Poorly educated women are 30 per cent more likely to be overweight than those who had a good education. Swedish women with poor educations are more than twice as overweight as educated women. In the USA and UK, children are particularly overweight. Around 30 per cent of British kids are overweight, compared with 40 per cent for their American counterparts. In Sweden, one person in ten is obese, although more than half of adult men and a third of adult women are overweight there.
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词汇学习
1.obesity n.肥胖,过胖
Obesity correlates with increased risk for hypertension and stroke.
肥胖会增加高血压和中风发作的几率 。
2.wonder vi.怀疑,想知道
Did you ever wonder how the top supermodels manage to look stunning?
难道你就没有想过那些超级名模是如何做到外表如此惊艳的吗?
3.considerably adv.相当,非常,颇
Doing it properly makes considerable demands on our time...
把这事做好要耗费我们相当多的时间 。
4.statistics n.统计,统计学
The degree provides a thorough grounding in both mathematics and statistics.
该学位课程将为数学和统计学打下扎实的基础 。
5.particularly adv.特别;尤其
Be particularly fastidious about washing your hands before touching food.
接触食物前尤其对洗手不能有半点马虎 。
内容解析
1.The country at the top of the list is the USA.
at the top of在…顶上
The United States will be at the top of the medal table.
美国将在奖牌榜上位列第一 。
2.This compares to an increase of five per cent in South Korea.
compare to与…相比
We should compare to this problem more further the high opinion to that problem.
我们对这个问题应比对那个问题更加重视 。
参考翻译
七个肥胖率最高的国家中有六个是说英语的国家
。这是经济合作与发展组织OECD最新一份报告的结果 。位于名单首位的是美国,随后是墨西哥,新西兰,澳大利亚,联合王国,加拿大和爱尔兰 。OECD调查了33个不同的国家 。另外26个国家是不讲英语的 。十个最苗条的国家包括日本,韩国,意大利,瑞士和瑞典 。卫生专家正在考虑为何说英语的国家是世界上肥胖率最高的国家 。一个理论是,他们都仿照美国的生活方式 。人们吃很多快餐,许多快餐的分量比世界上其他国家大得多 。OECD报告包含一些有趣的统计数据
。澳大利亚的肥胖增长率最快 。未来十年预期还会增加15% 。而韩国的增长率为5% 。在美国和瑞典,教育程度也对肥胖有影响 。教育程度差的女性比受过良好教育的女性肥胖的可能性高30% 。受教育程度差的瑞典女性超重的可能性是教育良好的女性的两倍 。在美国和英国,儿童肥胖非常明显 。大约30%的英国儿童超重,40%的美国儿童肥胖 。在瑞典,十分之一的人肥胖,然而超过一半的成年男性和三分之一的成年女性超重 。