英语新闻听写 轻度肥胖是新潮流？

Mildly Obese¹ Is The New Black?

轻度肥胖是新潮流？

A study from US epidemiologist Katherine Flegal finds being overweight might actually protect your body against death.

美国流行病专家凯瑟琳发现，过度肥胖可能会降低人们死亡的概率。

The publication Quartz² reports, “Flegal found the lowest mortality rates among people in the overweight to mildly obese categories.”

《Quartz》报道称“凯瑟琳发现处于过度肥胖与轻度肥胖之间的一类人是死亡率最低的。”

Flegal and other researchers have been hard at work confirming the validity of this “obesity paradox³."

Flegal和其他研究人员一直在努力证实这个“肥胖反论”的正确性。”

Her study finds being overweight helps protect patients with an increasingly long list of medical problems,

研究发现过度肥胖有助于降低

including pneumonia⁴, burns, stroke, cancer, hypertension, and heart disease.

肺炎、烧伤、中风、癌症、高血压以及心脏病病人死亡的概率。

1 obese   

adj.过度肥胖的，肥大的

参考例句：

• The old man is really obese,it can't be healthy.那位老人确实过于肥胖了，不能算是健康。
• Being obese and lazy is dangerous to health.又胖又懒危害健康。

2 quartz   

n.石英

参考例句：

• There is a great deal quartz in those mountains.那些山里蕴藏着大量石英。
• The quartz watch keeps good time.石英表走时准。

3 paradox   

n.似乎矛盾却正确的说法；自相矛盾的人(物)

参考例句：

• The story contains many levels of paradox.这个故事存在多重悖论。
• The paradox is that Japan does need serious education reform.矛盾的地方是日本确实需要教育改革。

4 pneumonia   

n.肺炎

参考例句：

• Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
• Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。