描述健康生活的英语学习情景

医学英语一 To bring healthier meals to students at the Dover-Eyota elementary school in Minnesota, school officials and parents started a partnership with local farmers. 为了让明尼苏达州多佛埃约塔小学的学生们吃到更健康的食物，学校领 导和家长们开始与当地农民进行合作。 School cook Cindy Grey was on the front line to see the impact. 学校厨师辛迪·格雷是直接负责检验效果的人员。 It's fun to get watermelon and corn on the cob fresh from a farmer who delivers 'em right to the back door. 从农民那里收到新鲜的西瓜和玉米棒是件很有趣的事，他们会把这些直 接送到学校后门。 When a delivery of watermelon was being made, I had a little guy say to me, “Is that for us?” and he was very, very excited. 当我们收到西瓜后，一个小家伙问我“那是给我们准备的吗?”，然后他 就特别特别兴奋。 Bringing the farm to school taught the kids a lot about nutrition and where food comes from. 把农作物带到学校的做法让孩子们对营养了解了更多，并且知道了事物 的来源。 It's really exciting to see the kids understand the freshness that's going on. 看到孩子们了解食物的新鲜性，这很让人激动。 The kids have watched us husk corn and been very excited knowing that that's going to be theirs later. 孩子们看到我们剥开玉米壳就特别兴奋，因为他们知道马上就能吃到了。 The farm-to-school program has brought better food to the children while building ties within the community. 从农场到学校的项目让孩子们迟到了更好的食物，同时也建立了社会联 系。 And it's had an impact on Cindy, as well as the kids she serves. 这对辛迪和她照顾的孩子们都意义非凡。 It's made my job exciting again. I'm glad we're going in this direction. It's great that it's being done here. 这让我的工作更加愉悦。很高兴我们这么做了。在这里这样做真是太棒 了。 医学英语二 When a company in Tucson saw its health care costs rising, it decided to find out if healthier employees could lead to a healthier bottom line. 图森市的一家公司发现它的医疗保健费用上升以后，决定调查一下更加 健康的员工是否能够降低此项费用。 Our health care claims were nearing a million dollars for our 95 employees. 我们 95 位员工的医疗保健费用将近 100 万美元。 And as a self-insured employer, we were worried about not being able to offer insurance to our employees. 而为了保住自己的公司，我们很担心可能无法给员工提供保险。 So we decided to implement a wellness program. 所以我们决定实施一项员工健康方案。 Instead of making cutbacks, the company invested in ways to help employees live healthier. 我们不会削减开支，而是进行投资让员工的生活更加健康。 We offer incentives for the employees, convenience of an onsite wellness coach who meets with each employee monthly, we have a walking path that employees can utilize during the course of the day, and we offer healthy food choices from our vending machines. 我们为员工提供奖励，有一位现场健康教练每个月都会和所有员工见上 一面，我们有一条散步小路，员工每天可以好好利用，而且自动售货机上还 提供有健康的食物。 Creating an environment that makes healthy living easier for everyone has paid off with some pretty impressive results for both the company and its employees. 为所有人创造一个更加健康的生活环境已经对公司和员工产生了非常可 观的结果。 We have actually been able to lower our claims by nearly 70 percent and we've lost 440 pounds as a total, as a group, in the last two years. 实际上，我们把费用降低了近 70%，而且两年的时间里，作为团队，我 们所有人一共减掉了 440 磅的重量。