人的一生有具体多长时间？要消耗多少东西？

 　　We spend an awful lot of time doing some pretty boring stuff. And it all adds up.

　　我们花了大量的时间去做一些很无聊的事情，而这一切加起来花掉了我们大量的时间。

　　A minute spent brushing your teeth comes to 21 days over the course of a lifetime.

　　每天如果刷牙花掉一分钟的话，我们一生中要花费21天的时间来做这件事情。

　　人的一生有具体多长时间？要消耗多少东西？

　　BODY

　　身体

　　The heart beats 3.45 billion times over the course of a lifetime. The heart pumps around one million barrels of blood in that time.

　　人一生心跳34.5亿次。心脏泵的血大约有一百万桶。

　　We breathe 265 million litres of air during our lives.

　　我们一辈子要呼吸2.65亿升的空气。

　　We blink 512.5 million times, hiccup¹ 100,000 times and sneeze 72,488 times.

　　眨眼睛5120.5次，打嗝100,000次，打喷嚏72488次。

　　We sweat 74,000 gallons of perspiration². That’s enough to fill 1,480 bath tubs.

　　我们出汗的总量是74,000加仑（1加仑=3.785 412升 ）。足够填满1480个浴盆。

　　If you sleep for eight hours a night, you’ll spend 27 years and four months of your life asleep. We suffer from seven years of insomnia³.

　　如果你每晚睡8个小时，你会花27年和四个月的时间睡觉。忍受7年时间的失眠。

　　TRAVEL

　　旅行

　　In a lifetime, we take 218 million steps — the equivalent of 113,000 miles. That’s more than four times around the world.

　　人这一生要走两亿多步，相当于113,000英里。可以绕世界四圈。

　　Back on the ground, we spend 653 hours of our lives standing⁴ on platforms, waiting for trains. In that time the average reader, at a speed of 200 words per minute, could finish 98 books.

　　回到地面上，我们花653个小时站在月台上等待火车。对普通读者来讲，以每分钟200字的速度，可以完成98本书。

　　FOOD AND DRINK

　　食品与饮品

　　We have to eat the food — that takes 3.66 years, which is about 67 minutes a day.

　　我们要花3.66年的时间去吃掉食物，每天大概花费的时间是67分钟。

　　The total amount of food that we eat in a lifetime is around 35 tons. That’s equivalent to seven fully-grown elephants.

　　我们一生要吃掉35吨食物。这个量相当于7头成年大象的重量。

　　In a lifetime, we drink 14,600 gallons of water.

　　我们还要喝掉146000加仑的水。

　　CLOTHES

　　衣服

　　At any one time, women own 16 bras and will buy 280 in total.

　　在一个时间点，女人都会拥有16个胸罩，总共会购买280个。

　　The average man wears 192 pairs of shoes and 46 suits in their life.

　　一般男性一生中会穿192双鞋，46套衣服。

　　GROOMING⁵

　　个人保养

　　Women spend 722 days, or nearly two years, putting on their make-up and 700 days doing their hair.

　　女人花722天，或近2年的时间化妆，花700天的时间做发型。

　　Women get through six pounds of lipstick⁶ in a lifetime. The most popular colour is ‘caramel nude’.

　　女性一生中要用六磅的口红。最流行的颜色是“焦糖裸色”。

　　We use 4,239 rolls of lavatory⁷ paper in our lives.

　　在我们一生中我们要使用4239卷厕纸。

　　They also spend 17 years trying to bring their weight down — using 16 different diets.

　　他们还花17年的时间试图降低体重——使用16种不同的节食方案。

　　However, men spend 3,000 hours shaving. That takes 25,923 disposable razors and 471 tins of shaving foam⁸.

　　然而，男性剃须花掉3000小时。这需要25923个一次性剃须刀和471罐剃须泡沫。

　　LEISURE TIME

　　休闲时间

　　We waste six months queuing and 20 weeks on hold on the telephone.

　　我们浪费掉六个月的时间排队，20个礼拜的时间在煲电话粥。

　　The average person checks their phone 85 times every day.

　　一般人每天要看手机85次。

　　We laugh out loud 290,000 times in our lives. But we laugh much less than we used to — in the Fifties, we laughed three times as much. Toddlers laugh around 300 times a day; adults only around 20 times.

　　在我们一生中，我们大声欢笑290000次。但是我们笑的时间比过去少得多——在五十年代，我们笑的时间是现在的三倍。幼儿每天笑300次，成人只有大约20次。

1 hiccup   

n.打嗝

参考例句：

• When you have to hiccup,drink a glass of cold water.当你不得不打嗝时，喝一杯冷水就好了。
• How long did he hiccup?他打嗝打了多久？

2 perspiration   

n.汗水；出汗

参考例句：

• It is so hot that my clothes are wet with perspiration.天太热了，我的衣服被汗水湿透了。
• The perspiration was running down my back.汗从我背上淌下来。

3 insomnia   

n.失眠，失眠症

参考例句：

• Worries and tenseness can lead to insomnia.忧虑和紧张会导致失眠。
• He is suffering from insomnia.他患失眠症。

4 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

5 grooming   

n. 修饰, 美容，（动物）梳理毛发

参考例句：

• You should always pay attention to personal grooming. 你应随时注意个人仪容。
• We watched two apes grooming each other. 我们看两只猩猩在互相理毛。

6 lipstick   

n.口红，唇膏

参考例句：

• Taking out her lipstick,she began to paint her lips.她拿出口红，开始往嘴唇上抹。
• Lipstick and hair conditioner are cosmetics.口红和护发素都是化妆品。

7 lavatory   

n.盥洗室，厕所

参考例句：

• Is there any lavatory in this building?这座楼里有厕所吗？
• The use of the lavatory has been suspended during take-off.在飞机起飞期间，盥洗室暂停使用。

8 foam   

v./n.泡沫，起泡沫

参考例句：

• The glass of beer was mostly foam.这杯啤酒大部分是泡沫。
• The surface of the water is full of foam.水面都是泡沫。