If they moved too fast, they would lose weight, and their owner would not get as much money for them.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

These are unquestionably strong words, and I think it's impossible for us to overestimate the weight of these words.

毫无疑问，这些言辞非常激烈，我觉得,怎么高估它们的分量都不过分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For example, maybe you were trying to lose some weight.

例如，也许你正在试图减肥。

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As the New York Times put it, he "struggled for much of his life with his weight,with alcohol and with persistent tales of womanizing."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Like somebody, for example, who has got extremely low weight might be that, and that explains part of it.

比如说那些体重非常轻的人,这解释了部分原因

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

For this role,Elizabeth Taylor gained a great deal of weight in order to look the part of the aging wife of a college professor.

VOA: special.2011.04.03

Remember, your answer holds great weight in terms of the state of the TA bragging for next week.

要知道，你的答案对你的助教,下周能否炫耀有着重要的影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Different explanations are offered for America's weight problem a problem increasingly shared by other countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

We take in a lot of food and water everyday, every year, and yet most of us our weight stays remarkably stable over that period of time for adults despite how much we eat and how much we drink.

日复一日年复一年,我们都摄入大量的食物和水,但我们绝大部分人的体重,在成年期都保持得很稳定,不管我们怎样大吃大喝

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He says even if people have a healthy body weight, sitting for long periods of time still has an unhealthy influence on blood sugar and blood fats.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

So, you will feel weightless for a short time or you'll feel your weight is little.

所以你会短时间的感觉到无重力,或者感到自己变轻了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The researchers say weight gain is probably to blame for the increase.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

a w And the amount of weight available, a w, for available weight.

合适的重量的个数是，也就是available，weight的简写。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Or if you are also losing weight for no reason.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Now it's not uncommon, by the way, for laboratory animals in these studies to triple their body weight.

顺便说下,在实验室,让动物体重变成普通的三倍,并不罕见

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Users visiting the website created for this study were asked to enter their weight, the food they'd eaten, and their physical activity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Now when people gain enough weight, they gain it all over their body, but those are the typical weight gain patterns and it happens for hormonal reasons.

如果人们增重很多,那么他们全身会均匀地增胖,但刚才讲的是比较典型的增重模式,激素是导致它们发生的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Others are cutting back on the quantity of gold they buy and opting for ornaments of lesser weight.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

That constellation of risk factors that gets packed together tells you more in some cases about a person's risk for disease than if all you knew was their weight.

上述提到的一系列的风险因素,能告诉我们更多有关个人的患病风险,这比仅仅知道体重更能说明问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

On top of all those physical benefits, Rodock got a cash award for walkingand losing weight.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

There are very interesting relationships between weight and risk for all diseases.

而体重与患病风险之间的关系也很有趣

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

For many people trying to shed a few kilograms, it's hard enough to lose the weight, but many experts say it's even harder to keep the weight off.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

But also you'd think that if there was a group of people that really had been attending the calories it would be this group, because very few people who come in for weight loss are doing it for the first time, so almost everybody has been on lots of different dietary attempts and somewhere along the line they've been doing calories.

想一想,如果世界上还有一群人,真正关注卡路里的话,那就是肥胖人群,因为那些参加减肥项目的人中,很少有人是第一次参加,几乎人人都进行过多次不同的饮食控制,他们也尝试过计算卡路里减肥

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

(Speaking) A university program also uses weight training for older adults.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Let me ask another question, if you give this-- and we'll talk about this in a later lecture, but if you give this diet to laboratory animal-- rats, mice, whatever-- it's very common for animals to gain a good bit of weight when given access to this diet.

我们来看另一个问题,如果你给,我们将在以后的课上讨论这个话题,但如果你给实验室动物,像小白鼠之类的,给予某种类型的饮食,这种饮食习惯会使得体重增加

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

She adds that, since a lifetime of obesity may put a child at greater risk for heart disease and other health problems, parents need to be concerned about their child's weight from the very start.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

In this case, death from heart disease and what you see here, and I'll tell you what relative risk is in just a minute, but this is basically risk for disease over on this axis and here its weight.

在这幅图里是心脏病致死的,我会简短地介绍一下相对风险的定义,Y轴表示患病风险,X轴表示体重

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Partly because, while personal counseling and a personal coach might be the Cadillac version of weight loss maintenance, it may not be practical for all people after they've lost weight, whereas if an Internet website can prove to be helpful, something like an Internet website is available.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30