She came home one day, snapped off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves.

有一天她回到家，关掉电视，让我们坐下来，解释说她的儿子们将会有所作为。

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Local TV station managed to find the boy and sat down with his mother to learn why he was doing his homework on the street instead of at home.

当地电视台设法找到了这名男孩，并和他的母亲坐在一起，了解他为什么在街上而不是在家里做作业。

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I woke up around 11-o 'clock. And sat around and watched some TV.

他说：“我大约11点起床，坐着没事干，或是看看电视，然后就吃午饭。”

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The steely-eyed government agents in 24, the Fox TV series, sat in Humanscale chairs.

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And research from Australia on health risks linked to TV viewing suggest too much time sat in front of the box can shorten life expectancy, presumably because viewers who watch a lot of telly do little or no exercise.

BBC: 15-minute daily exercise is 'bare minimum for health'

He came up with the idea about three years ago when he sat down to watch his favourite TV series and found the heroine blatantly plugging Nissan's latest car model.

BBC: Morgan Spurlock