英语听力文摘 English Digest 19、千金难买老来瘦
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力文摘 English Digest
Think back to your college days, the good old days when life was easy. Stay up all night partying or even studying? No problem. Eat pizza every night and plow 1 through entire bags of potato chips at one sitting. Hey, no sweat. You were a lean, mean, and oh-so-young machine.
But . . . then stuff 2 happens. You graduate, get a job, get married, have kids, and around the age of thirty-five you're no longer so young and so lean. In fact, you've added a few pounds around the middle. And with each passing year you seem to put on another pound or two. By the time you've hit your mid 3 forties you may find yourself looking in the mirror and wondering, "What happened to the slim, young Adonis?"
What happened is this. Around the age of thirty-five or so your metabolism 4 may start to slow down. Plus, you are likely to lose muscle mass, which slows your metabolism even more. The slower your metabolism, the slower the rate at which your body burns calories. So even if you're eating less than you used to, you'll start gaining weight.
But just because you're not a spring chicken anymore doesn't mean that you have to get fat. In fact, the antidote 5 is pretty simple: exercise and eat less. Lifting weights or otherwise regularly working your muscles will add or at least maintain 6 muscle mass, which will help maintain your metabolism. And the fewer calories you consume 7 in the first place, the fewer you need to burn.
So maybe you can't stay young forever, but you can stay slim.
- At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.每年这个时候农民们都在耕地。
- We will plow the field soon after the last frost.最后一场霜过后，我们将马上耕田。
- We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
- He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
- Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
- He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
- After years of dieting,Carol's metabolism was completely out of whack.经过数年的节食，卡罗尔的新陈代谢完全紊乱了。
- All living matter undergoes a process of metabolism.生物都有新陈代谢。
- There is no known antidote for this poison.这种毒药没有解药。
- Chinese physicians used it as an antidote for snake poison.中医师用它来解蛇毒。
- He has to maintain a large family on a small salary.他不得不依靠很少的工资养活一家人。
- We must do our best to maintain sales at their usual rate.我们要尽力使销售额保持在平日的水平上。