2008年職稱英語考試綜合類課堂筆記七十六1

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    1. 分析文章標(biāo)題:Eat(吃) healthy (健康的, 有益于健康的)
    Eat healthy = eat healthy (food)?
    Eat healthy = eat (to be) healthy?
    結(jié)合文章開頭語句進(jìn)行進(jìn)一步理解:
    “Clean(清掃/sao) your plate” and “Be a member of the clean-plate club!” Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent.often,its accompanied by an appeal:“Just think about those Starving orphans in Africa!”Sare,we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites3. Instead of (不是, 代替)staying(保持, 停留) “clean the plate”, perhaps(或許) we should save (節(jié)省)some food(食物) for(為了) tomorrow(明天).
     According to news reports,US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies.A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government,according to a USA Today story4.Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that.They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.
     Barbara Rolls,a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion Sizes began to grow in the 1970s,the same time that the American waistline began to expand.
     Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions.Now, apparently, some customers are Calling for this too.The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe restaurants serve portions that are too large;23 percent had no opinion;20 percent disagreed.But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can′t afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Seventy percent of those earning at least $150,000 per year prefer smaller portions;but only 45 percent of those earning less than $25,000 want smaller.
     It′s not that working class(工作階層) Americans/工薪階層 don′t want to eat healthy. It′s just(僅僅) that,after long hours at low-paying(低收入的) jobs,getting less(較少) on their plate(盤子,餐具)hardly (幾乎不)seems like a good deal(劃算). They live from paycheck to paycheck,happy to save a little money for next year’s Christmas presents.
    分析:根據(jù)文章中開頭及結(jié)尾部分的語句可推斷出文章標(biāo)題中提到的eat healthy 的含義是“少吃點(diǎn)以保持身體健康”。