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Children are getting so fat that they may be the first generation to die before their parents. To-day’s youngsters are already f

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问题     Children are getting so fat that they may be the first generation to die before their parents. To-day’s youngsters are already falling prey to potential killers such as diabetes because of their weight.
    (46)Fatty fast-food diets combined with sitting lifestyles dominated by televisions and computers could mean kids will die tragically young, says Professor Andrew Prentice, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. At the same time, the shape of the human body is going through a huge evolutionary shift because adults are getting so fat.
    Here in Britain, latest research shows that the average waist size for a man is 36-38in and may be 42-44in by 2032. This compares with only 32.6in in 1972. Women’s waists have grown from an average of 22in in 1920 to 24in in the Fifties and 30in now. One of the major reasons why children now are at greater risk is that we are getting fatter younger. In the UK alone, more than one million under-16s are classed as overweight or obese—double the number in the mid-Eighties. One in ten four-year-olds are also medically classified as obese.
    The obesity pandemic—an extensive epidemic—which started in the US, has now spread to Europe, Australasia, Central America and the Middle East. (47)Many nations now record more than 20 percent of their population as clinically fat and well over half the population as overweight. (48)Prof. Prentice said the change in our shape has been caused by an oversupply of easily available high-energy foods combined with a dramatic drop in the energy we use as a result of technology developments.
    He is not alone in his concern. Only last week one medical journal revealed how obesity was fuelling a rise in cancer cases. Obesity also increases the risk factor for strokes and heart disease as well as diabetes. (49)An averagely overweight person’s lifespan is shortened by around nine years while a severely overweight person by many more.
    Prof. Prentice said: "So will parents outlive their children, as claimed recently by an American obesity specialist? Yes, when the offspring become grossly obese. This is now becoming an alarmingly common occurrence in the US. (50)Such children and adolescents have a greatly reduced quality of life in terms of both their physical and psychosocial health. So say No to that doughnut and burger."
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答案来自伦敦卫生和热带医学学院的安德鲁?普伦蒂斯教授指出，脂肪含量过高的快餐饮食，加上由于电视和电脑的支配使得孩子们养成了久坐不动的生活方式，这意味着孩子们在年轻的时候就会悲惨地死去。
解析 本句为复合句，宾语从句的主干为Fatty fast-food diets with lifestyles could mean…。过去分词短语 dominated　by　televisions　and　computers作后置定语，修饰lifestyles；kids will die tragically young为动词mean的宾语从句。本句中的后置定语在翻译时可直接译成表示因果关系的句子，这样既不改变原句的语义，译文又更加通顺。翻译时注意词汇引申。句中sitting意为"坐着的"，这里根据上下文引申为"久坐不动的"；combine with意为"与…结合"，将词义进行引申，直接译成"加上"，这样表达很自然流畅。
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