健身英语1. 健身房gym每个人到健身房的目的不一样，也许你会想要：健康点to become healthy保持体态to get fit减肥to lose weight增重to gain weight增强肌肉to build muscle塑身to shape your body眼睛吃冰淇淋to watch nice bodies交朋友to make friends打屁to chat2. 健身中心fitness center健身俱乐部：health club3. 健身教练trainer4. 运动鞋sneaker5. 置物柜locker6. 入会费membership fee7. 参加(健身课程) to enroll inThe member ship fee is 23,000 when you enroll in our program.当您完成入会手续后，我们会跟您收取两万三千元的入会费。
8. 局部瘦身spot reductionspot (n.)：部位reduction (n.)：减少9. 脂防fat消除脂肪：to reduce the fat / to get rid of the fat 低脂饮食：low-fat dietI work out every day in order to increase the muscle in my chest and arms and get rid of thefat around my waist.我每天健身，为的就是增加我胸部和手臂的肌肉，并消除腰部的脂肪。
10. 体适能fitness11. 健身to work out我们也可以把work out两个字合在一起，变成一个名词：workout.It's becoming a trend for modern people towork out in the gym.现代人在健身房健身已慢慢成为一种趋势。
[*]健身房gym每个人到健身房的目的不一样，也许你会想要：健康点to become healthy保持体态to get fit减肥to lose weight增重to gain weight增强肌肉to build muscle塑身to shape your body眼睛吃冰淇淋to watch nice bodies交朋友to make friends［＊］健身中心fitness center健身俱乐部：health club[*]健身教练trainer［*]运动鞋sneaker［*]置物柜locker［*]入会费membership fee［*］参加（健身课程) to enroll inThe member ship fee is 23，000 when you enroll in our program.当您完成入会手续后，我们会跟您收取两万三千元的入会费。
[＊]局部瘦身spot reductionspot (n。
）：部位reduction (n。
）：减少［*］脂防fat消除脂肪：to reduce the fat / to get rid of the fat低脂饮食：low-fat dietI work out every day in order to increase the muscle in my chest and arms and get rid of the fat around my waist。
我每天健身，为的就是增加我胸部和手臂的肌肉，并消除腰部的脂肪。
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体适能fitness11. 健身to work out我们也可以把work out两个字合在一起,变成一个名词：workout.It's becoming a trend for modern people to work out in the gym。
现代人在健身房健身已慢慢成为一种趋势.The model goes to the gym for a workout five times a week.这个模特儿每个星期到健身房健身五次。
Dealing with adversityA daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her .She did not know how she was going to make it’and wanted to give up.She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed that as one problem was solved anew one arose.Her father ,a chef,took her into the kitchen .He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.Soon the pots came to the boil. In one he placed carrots,in the second he placed eggs ,and in the last he placed ground coffee beans.He sat there and waited for the pots to boil, without saying a word.The daughter sucked her teeth and waited impatiently ,wondering what he was doing .In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners.He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl.He pulled the eggs out and placed them in another bowl.Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a mug.Turning to her,he asked,“Darling,what do you see?”“Carrots,eggs,and coffee,” she replied.He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft.He then asked her to take an egg and break it.After peeling off the shell,she observed the hard-boiled egg.finally,he asked her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.She humbly asked,“What dose it mean,Father?”He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity,boiling water,but each reacted differently.The carrot went in strong, hard,and unrelenting.But after being subjected to the boiling water,it softened and became weak.The egg had been fragile.Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior.But after enduring the boiling water, its inside become hardened.The ground coffee beans were unique,however.After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.“Which are you?”he asked his daughter.“When adversity knocks on your door,how do you respond?Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?”How about you,my friend?Are you the carrot that seems hard,but with pain and adversity you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?Are you the egg,which starts off with a malleable heart?Where you a fluid spirit,but after a death, a breakup ,a divorce,or a layoff,have you become hardened and stiff?Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?Or are you like the coffee bean?The bean changes the hot water,the thing that is bringing the pain,to its peak flavor when it reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest,it just tastes better.If you are like the bean,when things are at their worst, you get better and make things better around you.Ask yourself how you handle adversity.Are you a carrot,an egg, or a coffee bean?(527words)The RoseThe first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.I turned around to find a little,wrinkled old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.She said, “Hi handsome.my name is Rose. I’m eight-seven years old.Can I give you hag?”I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!”and she gave me a giant squeeze.2“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children,and then retire and travel.”“no,serious-ly?”I was curious as to be taking on this challenge at her age.“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.We become instant friends.Every day for the next there mothers,we would leave class together and talk nonstop.I was always fascinated listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.Over the course of the year,Rose become a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went.She loved to dress up and she revelled in the attention bestowed on her by the other students.She was living itup.At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet.I’ll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.As she began to deliver her prepared speech,she leaned into microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whisky is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.” As we laughed she cleared her throat and began: “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy,and achieving success.”“You have to laugh and find humour every day.”“You’ve got to have a dream.When you lose your dreams,you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!”“There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.”“Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what wedid, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose”. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it/s never too late to be all you can possibly be.Remember, growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional.(651words)Healthy Is BeautifulWe live in a time of “eyeball economy1”,according to the wold’s marketeers,and the advantages a great body bestows have made beautiful women different than ordinary women. To women,a clear message is that you look like explains what kind of person you are.Meanwhile,the media grasp every chance to head the direction of woman’s aesthetics,leading both men and women to increase their charm.Thy have defined the relationship between men and women asthat in which women attract men and gain appreciation with their beauty,tenderness,obedience and sex appeal.2 Regardless of a woman’s spiritual wold,vigorous vitality and social contribution,an inordinate value has been placed on their bodies.On the contrary, man’s value contains spiritual quality and relies on successes.No matter where a woman is and whether she is of a high or low status,some attention will be paid to her appearance.So,in today’s wold,pleasing and marrying a good man has become a major pursuit and realization of value for many women.That is to say,to women,a good appearance is no longer a vain demand of their own but a social need, forced on them by society.The colorful and exciting life of various,seen repeatedly in the media and ads,discourages other women.Once they learn that many of these successful women’s beautiful appearances are recreated,they also turn,in large numbers,to gyms,beauty salons and weight-loss clinics to draw out fat,enlarge and reshape their breasts,remove spots or freckles,or heighten the bridges of their noses.Some of them even have toxin injected into their bodies.This kind of extreme way of life costs not only money but,more important,health and even life.Although so-called “ideal beauties”are a small proportion of the proportion in reality,every woman has her own uniqueness.However,in the social culture, the one-sidedness andnarrow views regarding a woman’s value makes woman feel from time to time that their appearance is far from the ideal standard.Subsequently,they the remolding of their appearance as a lifetime goal.so as to cater either to society’s views or to men’s aesthetic standards.Various investigations have revealed that it is a worldwide phenomenon that women are overcritical about their bodies. In Hong Kong,60 percent of the 16~42-year-old interviewees are displeased with their breasts and half of them are considering having them augmented.Being young,pretty,slim and sexy are society’ s standard for the “ideal”woman.In fact,this standard is contradictory to the law of women’s growth. Foot-binding in ancient times and this ago’s face-lifting and body reshaping ,despite being different in form, are the same in nature .That is that women have to follow the standards and demands of the mainstream aesthetic culture and have set themselves against their own bodies.So it is hoped that men and women will make efforts together toMake a breakthrough from the unhealthy aesthetic culture and recreate a new image of healthy and beautiful women. Any woman is beautiful as long as she is healthy, both mentally and physically , and bringshappiness to the people around her .Living a Long LifeIn the Caucasus region, nearly 50 out of every 100,000 people live to celebrate their 100yh birthday,and many don’t stop at 100!By comparison,in America, only 3 people in 100,000 reach 100.But these Caucasian old people aren’t alone.The Pakistanis,who live high in the Himalaya Mountains,and Ecuadorians of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador seem to share the secret of long life, too.These peoples remain healthy in body and spirit despite the passage of time.While many older persons in industrial societies become weak and ill in their 60s and 70s,some Caucasians,aged 110 to 140,work in the fields beside their great-great-grand-children.Even the idea of aging is foreign to them.When asked, “At what age does youth end?”Most of the old people had no answer. Several replied, “Well,perhaps at age 80.” The very youngest estimate was age 60 .What accounts for this ability to survive to such old age,and to survive so well?First of all,hard physical work is a way of life for all of these long-lived people. They begin their long days of physical labor as children and never seem to stop. For example, Mr. Rustam Mamedov is 142 years of age. He remembers his life experiences: the Crimean War of 1854; the Turkish war of 1878; the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.His wife is 116 years old. They have been married for 90 years.Mr. Mamedov has no intention of retiring from as a farmer. “why? What else would I do?” he asks. Oh,he’s slowed down a bit. Now he might quit for the day after 6 hours in the field instead of 10.All these people get healthful rewards from the environment, in which they work. They all come from mountainous regions. They live and work at elevations of 5,000 to 12,000 feet (1,660 to 4,000 meters)above sea level. The air has less oxygen and ispollution-free.This reduced-oxygen environment2 makes the heart and blood vessel system stronger.Another factor that may contribute to the good health of these peoples is their isolation. To a great extent, they are separated from the pressures and worries of industrial society.Inherited factor also play some role. Most of the long-lived people had parents and grandparents who also reached very old ages. Good family genes may, therefore,be one factor in living longer.Finally, although these three groups don’t eat exactly the same foods,their diets are similar. The Caucasians, Pakistanis, and Ecuadorians eat little animal meat.Their diets are full of fresh of fresh fruits, vegetables,nuts,grains,cheese, and milk.They never eat more food than their bodies need.It is clear that isolation from urban pressures and pollution, clean mountain air,daily hard work, moderate diets,good genes, andyouthful approach to life all contribute to the health and remarkable long life ofall these people.3(485 words)How to Overcome ShynessIn Giving Public Speaking(Question) Dear Mr.Expert: “My best fired has just invited me to her wedding.I am delighted for her. But to my horror,she wants me to do one of the readings at the service. We have been close since we were at school together,and I can’t believe she has forgotten that I have always been terrified of any kind of public speaking.This is more than a slight case of nerves.I have to struggle with chronic shyness on a daily basis.It seems to get worse as I get older---I tend to panic when faced with strangers.I can’t speak,let alone make conversation.The thought of standing up in front of those people fills me st time I spoke in public,when I was at school,I froze and turned beetroot.It was frightening and humiliating.I don’t want to offend my friend by refusing,my excuses sound so pathetic.What should I do?”(Answer) Dear Dundee:In one respect,this problem is amolehill,posing as a mountain.The last thing your friend will want,on her big day,is you in a state of panic.You ask how she can have forgotten your phobia----but people who are not shy themselves often find it hard to take the problem seriously.Shyness,at its worst,can be an absolute handicap.It is often unfairly confused with arrogance.Dr.Johnson thought it was caused by “too high an opinion of our own importance”. There can be a genuine fear of other people’s scorn; of being misunderstood.You will never forget your last experience of public speaking,when you were at school. I dare say it is engraved on your heart ,and you imagine that everyone there thinks of it whenever they see you .What felt so dreadful to you,however,is probably long-forgotten by everyone else.Your friend, when you explain how you feel,will be sorry that she has put you through all this worry.She will sympathize all the more if she understands that you are really suffering----so don’t pull any punches.Try not to imagine that she is hardhearted,or dealing out a deliberate snub. You seem almost to be expecting humiliation,in some form or other.Take her invitation at its face value and remember to thank ner for asking you.It may be your idea of a nightmare,but she meant to pay you a compliment.Shyness can make people appear ungracious,or even downright rude,and that kind of misunderstandingis the last thing you need.And don’t sweep your real problem under the carpet,until the next time you are forced to confront it.Your shyness is spoiling your life at the moment,and “getting worse”.You seem to be living in fear.You “panic”when confronted by strangers.The human body was designed to panic when its village was trampled by Mammoths.The reaction is totally out of place in the average social situation.Possibly, you freeze and turn “beetroot” because you are afraid of strangers seeing the real you.Shy people often suffer from a desperate lack of self-esteem.Is someone giving you a hidden message that you are worthless?There is a big difference between being a bit retiring,and being extremely shy.You don’t have to wrestle with this problem alone.Ask for help---from a close friend,a member of your family,or your GP.Shyness can be one symptom of depression;the lack of self-esteem being the other side of the same coin.If you are among friends and the setting is familiar,what is there to be afraid of?Even if they thought you were ghastly,they would be unlikely to say so.They are more likely to think, when you finally let your personality out for an airing, that you are charming.(650words)。
