23.这篇很有趣,偏简单!~~ If you’re like me, somewhere in your closet, or maybe in a drawer, you probably have a pair of pants you hope to someday fit into. Again.But staying on a diet and finding time to exercise—it’s no walk in thepark. But wait! Before you swear off the spaghetti,scientists at the State University of New York in Stony Brook have stumbledonto a new way to slenderize使苗条. They found that mice that spend 15 minutes a day standing on avibrating platform are leaner than mice who juststand still. Their results appear in the current online edition of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. All the animals in the experiment wereallowed to eat their fill. After 15weeks, the shaken mice didn’t actually weigh any less. But compared to the micewho hung out on a stationary platform, they had about 30 percent less fataround their middles. The SUNY scientists think that the jiggling颤抖 kept fat cells fromforming. Whether it would do the same for people, you never know. And here youthought New Yorkers were lean and mean because they’re always in a hurryrushing here and there. Maybe it’s because they spend so much time standing onvibrating subway platforms, waiting for the uptown 住宅区express. -- by 会员 ashlie888 (2011/11/1 23:00:43)
昨天听了这篇,我也觉得比之前的较简单些.
几个习惯用语查了下字典
A WALK IN THE PARK: something that is very easy to do or accomplish swear off (informal): promise to abstain from
( stumble across/on/upon) find or encounter by chance |