2013年5月30日 星期四

好文分享:Is it better to walk or run?

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原文網址:http://ppt.cc/rWr2

走路跟跑步或許是最直接最方便的運動方式了!
但到底這兩者之間有什麼差別呢?個有優點喔!一一看下去!

Run, Forrest, run!!!


開頭兩句可以說是非常好的獨立寫作模版喔!
用膩自己模版或是還在網海上尋找的同學,
不妨試試看喔!多看報章雜誌才是寫出道地英文的不變道理!

Walking and running are the most popular physical activities for American adults. But whether one is preferable to the other in terms of improving health has long been debated.

主題一:到底走路跟體重哪一個比較好控制體重呢?
即使消耗的卡路里一樣,跑步還是比走路更好控制體重喔!
Why running should better aid weight management than walking is not altogether clear. It might seem obvious that running, being more strenuous then walking, burns more calories per hour. And that’s true. But in the Berkeley study and others, when energy expenditure was approximately matched — when walkers head out for hours of rambling and burn the same number of calories over the course of a week as runners — the runners seem able to control their weight better over the long term.

其中一個原因是appetite!
跑完步會讓一個人比較沒有食慾喔!女生們知道該怎麼做了吧?

One reason may be running’s effect on appetite, as another intriguing, if small, study suggests. In the study, published last year in the Journal of Obesity, nine experienced female runners and 10 committed female walkers reported to the exercise physiology lab at the University of Wyoming on two separate occasions. On one day, the groups ran or walked on a treadmill for an hour. On the second day, they all rested for an hour. Throughout each session, researchers monitored their total energy expenditure. They also drew blood from their volunteers to check for levels of certain hormones related to appetite.
After both sessions, the volunteers were set free in a room with a laden buffet and told to eat at will.
The walkers turned out to be hungry, consuming about 50 calories more than they had burned during their hourlong treadmill stroll.
The runners, on the other hand, picked at their food, taking in almost 200 calories less than they had burned while running.



主題二: 走路也有比跑步好的地方:有效降低心臟疾病
And in perhaps the most comforting of the new studies, published last month in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology and again using numbers from the versatile Runners and Walkers Health Study, runners had far less risk of high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol profiles, diabetes and heart disease than their sedentary peers. But the walkers were doing even better. Runners, for instance, reduced their risk of heart disease by about 4.5 percent if they ran an hour a day. Walkers who expended the same amount of energy per day reduced their risk of heart disease by more than 9 percent.


單字解析:
… researchers combed (尋找,這邊不是梳頭髮喔)survey data from 15,237 walkers and 32,215 runners enrolled in the National Runners and Walkers Health Study — a large survey being conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

2013年5月29日 星期三

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六月份高機率機經聽力:Romanticism V.S. Realism

用簡單幾個表格帶同學快速了解Romanticism realism的特色及不同處!
 
              
原始中文機經:American literature 的變遷。浪漫主義,和現實主義文學。

表格1:
               ROMANTIC                                     NON-ROMANTIC/CLASSICAL
               Emotional                                                Reasonable and Practical
               Individualistic                                           Public Responsibility
               Revolutionary                                          Conservative
               Loves Solitude & Nature                          Loves Public, Urban Life
               Fantasy/Introspection                              External Reality
               The Particular                                           The Universal
               Subjective Perception                              Objective Science 
               Satisfaction of Desire                               Desire Repressed 情感壓抑的
               Organic 富含生命力的                              Mechanical  機械的
               Creative Energy/Power                            Form 制式化
               Exotic                                                       Mundane
               "Noble Savage"/Outcasts                         Bourgeois Family 中產階級家庭

Romanticism

表格2:                                   

Genre
American Author
Perceived the individual as...
Romantics
Ralph Waldo Emerson
a god
Realists
Henry James
William Dean Howells
Mark Twain
simply a person

American Realism 代表作家: Mark Twain


Plot and character

現實主義顧名思義就是故事反應現實社會狀況,所以一般認為命運掌握在人的手中,也大多描述中產階級   (bourgeois Family)的平凡人的故事,

  • Character is more important than action and plot; complex ethical choices are often the subject.
  •  Characters appear in the real complexity of temperament and motive; they are in explicable relation to nature, to each other, to their social class, to their own past.
  • Humans control their destinies; characters act on their environment rather than simply reacting to it.
  • Renders reality closely and in comprehensive detail.  Selective presentation of reality with an emphasis on verisimilitude (真實性), even at the expense of a well-made plot.
  • Events will usually be plausible.  Realistic novels avoid the sensational, dramatic elements of naturalistic novels and romances.
  • Class is important; the novel has traditionally served the interests and aspirations of an insurgent middle class.

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