時差N小時:你懶惰嗎?

Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge ratherthan cook from scratch? Have you been doinginternet shopping rather than going to the stores?What can't you be bothered to do?

您是否情愿吃冰箱里的即食食品，也懶得親自下廚做飯呢?您是否更樂于網上購物，而懶得去逛街?還有什么其他您懶得去做的事情呢?

A study into how lazy British people are has foundmore than half of adults are so idle they'd catch thelift rather than climb two flights of stairs.Just over2000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largesthealth charity. The results were startling.

一項關于“英國人有多懶”的調查發(fā)現，超過半數以上的成年人非常懶惰，就算住在二樓，他們寧肯坐電梯也懶得去爬那兩段樓梯。有超過兩千人接受了英國最大的健康慈善機構——納菲爾德健康中心的獨立調查員的調查，調查結果令人大吃一驚。

About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continuewatching the same channel rather than get up. More than one third of those questioned saidthey would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% saidthey were often too tired to play with them. This led the report to conclude that it's no wonderthat one in six children in the UK are classified as obese before they start school.

調查顯示，如果遙控器壞了，大約六分之一的人寧肯繼續(xù)看原來的頻道也懶得起身去換臺。超過三分之一的被調查者稱，他們不會跑著去趕一班公交。令人擔憂的是，654名有孩子的受訪者中有64%的人聲稱他們經常由于疲憊而懶得陪孩子們玩。調查報告最后總結道，難怪英國每六個學齡前兒童就有一個患有肥胖癥。

Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said: "People need to get fitter, not justfor their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too.If wedon't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit toperform even the most rudimentary of tasks.”

納菲爾德健康中心的醫(yī)療顧問薩拉·當西博士說，“人們的生活有必要變得更健康，這不僅僅是為他們自身考慮，也是為他們的家人、朋友、當然還有他們的寵物考慮。如果我們現在還不開始采取措施控制這個問題，整個一代人將會因過度不健康而喪失完成最基本任務能力。”

And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most indolent city in the UK, with75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham andSouthampton, both with 67%.

在關于體育運動的調查中，蘇格蘭最大的城市格拉斯哥有75%的人承認他們缺少足夠的體育鍛煉，因而格拉斯哥市被評為英國最懶惰的城市。緊鄰其后的是伯明翰和南安普敦，均有67%的人承認缺少足夠的體育鍛煉。

The results pose serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-relatedillnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 yearsand are costing billions of pounds every year.

調查結果給英國國民健康服務體系提出了嚴重挑戰(zhàn)，在過去40年來，像心臟病和癌癥這些與肥胖相關的疾病一直呈穩(wěn)步上升態(tài)勢，而每年的醫(yī)療投入和花費都高達數十億英鎊。