2008年职称英语考试综合类课堂笔记七十八

文章作者 100test 发表时间 2008:05:27 10:07:54
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答案与解析：
1． 分析文章标题：Eat（吃） healthy （健康的， 有益于健康的）
Eat healthy = eat healthy （food）？
Eat healthy = eat （to be） healthy？

结合文章开头语句进行进一步理解：
“Clean（清扫/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（或许） we should save （节省）some food（食物） for（为了） 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(工作阶层) Americans/工薪阶层 don′t want to eat healthy. It′s just（仅仅） that，after long hours at low-paying（低收入的） jobs，getting less（较少） on their plate（盘子，餐具）hardly （几乎不）seems like a good deal(划算). They live from paycheck to paycheck，happy to save a little money for next year’s Christmas presents．

分析：根据文章中开头及结尾部分的语句可推断出文章标题中提到的eat healthy 的含义是“少吃点以保持身体健康”。