1. Do you usually go to gyms? Why?

1. 你经常去健身房吗，为什么？

Yes, I do. I go to the gym every few days. You know,health is becoming more and more important. It is very hard to imagine how someone can survive without health! You know,health has already become the priority number one when it comes to almost everything and we are certainly going nowhere without it! Health has already become one of the very few things that can‘t be measured in terms of money. And certainly, going to gyms frequently is obviously a good way of keeping healthy.

嗯，是的。我每隔几天都会去的。大家都知道，身体健康已经变得越来越重要了。真的十分难以想象没有健康大家要怎么生存下去。无论谈及任何事情，健康已经成为人们首要考虑的因素，而且没有健康我们哪也去不了！健康已经成为不能用金钱衡量的为数不多的东西之一了。当然，经常去健身房显然是一种保持健康的合适方式。

2. Do Chinese do lots of exercise?

2. 中国人经常锻炼吗？

Yes, generally speaking,we Chinese do lots of exercise. Fitness, for the last several decades, had been used as a buzzword. Going to the gym to work out is frequently taken as one of the top New Year‘s resolutions,especially to young people. But it really depends. Depends on age and sex. Can you imagine a ninety-year-old lady going to the gym to build up nice figure and can you imagine a three-year-old little kid going to the gym to get in shape?

是的，一般来说，我们中国人经常锻炼。健康，在最近几十年中，已经被当作一个流行话语在用了。尤其是对一些年轻人来说，去健身房锻炼已经普遍成为度过新年的首要方式了。但是，这也要看情况。这主要取决于年龄和性别。你怎么能想象一个九十岁的老妇人去健身房塑造一个良好的形体，以及一个三岁小孩去健身房去塑形呢？

3. What do you think of losing weight?

3. 你怎么看减肥的？

This is being talked about like a buzzword among people,especially to those ladies who are dying to become more eye-catching and attention-grabbing. I think it is a good thing, but don‘t ever overdo it. It is like there is always a fine line, don‘t ever cross it. And I suppose being on crash diet of only tap water would be the very last thing that everybody wants to do and it will totally ruin your health.

这在很多人中间已经成了一个时髦的词了，尤其是对那些如饥似渴地想变得吸引人眼球的女士来说。我认为这挺好的，但是不要做得太过火了。就像有一条适度的线，千万不要越过它了。因为我觉得疯狂的只喝自来水的减肥，是每个人都不愿意做的，这样也会毁了你的健康的。

单词辨析

1.priority

n. 优先权，优先顺序，优先

2.survive

vt. 比 ... 活得长，幸免于难，艰难度过

3.figure

n. 图形，数字，形状; 人物，外形，体型

v. 演算，

4.measured

adj. 量过的，慎重的，基于标准的，有韵律

5.ruin

v. 毁灭，毁坏，破产

n. 毁灭，崩溃，废墟

6.fitness

n. 适合度（生物学术语）

n. 健康