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我本人和
diet
肯定是扯不上多大关系的，这点从体形就能看出来，虽然我已经比读大学的时候足足重了
15
公斤
。从这个意义上说，脂肪就好像词汇量，
10
年时间还是多少有所积累的。
但这不妨碍
diet
这一话题几十年来的影响力。一个有意思的现象是，哪怕有那么多的揭露某些减肥产品真相的报道，很多人依然对它，对这个概念，锲而不舍，情有独钟。用一段精彩的英文来表达吧，某专栏作家在谈及她一个朋友的减肥经历时这样写到：
With a diet history that encapsulated the weight loss fads of the late twentieth century, her story was a prime example of the endless odyssey that sends most dieters from one popular program to another, looking for that mythical diet to end all diets, the diet that will rid them of their excess weight once and for all.
今天发的精听标题叫做
How to make a diet work
，是年初时候的报道。个人觉得精听的内容也需要多样化，不能总是国事访问、公司并购。其实没有很多新意，无非是从生活方式、运动等方面谈如何综合治理，而自己看到的另一篇对新书
Rethinking Thin
的报道倒是提供了一些不同的视角，可以在精听完成之后再补充上来。
顺便说一下，当年自己教基础英语的时候，曾经介绍
diet
的派生词，什么
dietician
，
dieter
，
dietary
，洋洋洒洒。但做陪同口译时老外说，
diet coke, please
，我第一次听到就反应不过来，没法把
diet coke
和“健怡可乐”划等号。事后回顾总结，似乎更明白了什么是健怡可乐，而且隐约能体会到“翻译需要找到真正表义的
equivalent
，而不是字面对应”，也算是实战中的进步。
关于
diet
就说到这里，有什么故事心得大家补充。目前我还没有这个需求，如果哪天我比现在又重了
15
公斤
（其实
10
公斤
已经很够意思了），我一定会去好好研究什么是
Atkins diet
，而且我可以想像，真到了那步，自己说不定也会去购买
diet products
，哪怕我在若干年前就明白，真正的
weight loss
大概不是
diet
本身可以一劳永逸解决的。
答案和补充材料过一周左右发，等我从宁波回来吧。
有个小小的建议，在仔细听写，哪怕大致听完了这篇文章之后，如果觉得其中有些说的有道理，不妨去告知身边那些因减肥而烦恼的朋友们，也许多少会有些帮助的。
大家周末快乐。
参考文本
It’s six days into the New Year and we are wondering how you are doing on that diet you promised yourself you’d go on in 2007. Still sticking with it, despite the candy bars calling out to you from the office vending machine, and the invitations to catch up with co-workers over great, greasy fast-food lunches? And there is still a couple of dangerous football games ahead and the overflowing snack trays that come with them. To get some tips for sidestepping those diet hazards, we’ve called Miriam Nelson. She is the director of the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at TuftsUniversity. She joins us from member station WGBH in Boston. Happy New Year’s resolution to you! (
注意首句中的
…that diet you …
连读效果。几句描写美食对节食者的诱惑的句子很经典。
To get some tips for…
一句，
tracy
听出来的是
for
后面有一个
a
，发音肯定有，但我估计是播音员停顿了一下而已，否则说不通。
)
Happy New Year’s to you as well, Linda. Thank you for having me.
Now my sense is that diets don’t really work. Now I offer that based on half a life of trying to lose the same ten ugly pounds. What is wrong with dieting? (ugly
用的多漂亮！所有曾为身材烦恼的人，对吧？换个角度想，以后想要不为所谓节食烦恼，是几斤就几斤的，索性可以用
…my beautiful …pounds.)
Well, you know, the reality is that diets can work. But you need to think of them not really just as a short term, eat this, eat that for a very specific amount of time and prescribed types of foods. The trick is changing the way you think about food and where you eat it and how you eat it and the types of foods that you eat. The trick is that you need to put a little bit of mental energy into it at the forefront and then you’ll be very successful over the long haul.
Ok, give us some tips. What are you talking about here when you say changes in food, changes in habit?
Well, the first thing is that you need to plot it out. You can’t just say I want to lose ten pounds. First is you need to assemble your support team, you need to figure out who is it that can help you. Then there are a couple of important tips to keep in mind .Don’t let your car be your dining room or your desk be where you have lunch. Eat at a table and preferably with the television off. Certainly, you can have National Public Radio on, but you want the television off. Writing everything down, this self-monitoring tool is probably the best thing that you can do. You don’t have to write down the amounts, just literally the foods you ate during the day and the activities that you participated--- your physical activity. Snack smart and you got to exercise.
（首句的
plot it out
可能有点难度。
you need to figure out who is it that can help you
，个人觉得还是有
it
，
who is it that…Certainly, you can have National Public Radio on, but you want the television off.
高口班的同学看到这句话，是否还记得听过一篇
Al Gore
访谈，讲到环保，说要少看电视，甚至把电视关了，
Gore
故作深沉状，
not now, not now…
末句
snack smart
没问题，
and you got to exercise
觉得必须有一个
to
，否则意思不通。）
Is it really true that you cannot lose weight without substantially increasing your exercise?
That’s a great question. In reality, with long-term weight control, is that it is absolutely a combination of eating smart and exercising more. Too many people think it is really putting on your running shoes and going out for a run, but it can be lifestyle. You can use it for commuting. If you live in a city, walk more. The best is really to mix up your activities-some strength training, aerobic activity. Mixing up your activities can be much more fun and also very heath-promoting and help with a long-term weight control. (
没有什么难度，留心
the best is really to mix up your…
中的
up
的读法。
)
What about sabotaging your diet? For example, I am a really good cook and I can’t stand it when I make a really good meal, I want to eat a lot of it. That not only sabotages me, it also sabotages my husband.
（
Roy
在这里又一次与
sabotage
邂逅，觉得这一次不会再错过她，呵呵。以往
sabotage
都用于“阴谋破坏”等场合，与实际生活相去甚远，而这里的用法，大词小用，顿时倍感亲切。）
But I bet your meals are very wholesome. You know the trick is it’s not really usually one meal that does it. The biggest problem is really the what we call sort of mindless eating that we have amidst the bowl of candies that's at the secretary’s desk that you walk by. It’s the increase in snacks and availability of foods that are cheap and quite palatable really. (amidst
的读音可能会带来难度，
palatable
在口译考试中也出现过，词汇库中的
delicious
又多了一个朋友。
)
So you notice that you're doing that, presumably if you keep that list.
Exactly. For many people their diets become very monotonous and there are just a few foods in them everyday along with tons more snack foods and dessert foods. We need to get back to basics.
Miriam Nelson is an associate professor at TuftsUniversity. She is the author of several books on nutrition and wellness, including Strong Women Stay Young and Strong Women Eat Well. That sounds good. Doctor Nelson, thank you.
（请女士们务必牢记，
Strong Women, Stay Young; Strong Women, Eat Well; Strong Women, Do Dictation.
）
posted on 2007-05-26 18:07
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