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　　最近偶尔读到一则消息,说是芝麻街里的曲奇怪正在减肥。大意如下：

　　No More Treats for Cookie Monster

　　Seasame Street favourite Cookie Monster is going on adiet.

　　He is aiming to get healthy during the show’snewseries reports the New Zealand Harald.Other characters will also get involved in the health drive.Elmo will be shown exercising.

　　As part of the project,Cookie Monster,who used to singthat“C is for cookie”,will be telling viewers that biscuits are occasional treats.He now sings:“A cookie is a sometimes food.”

　　说到减肥,大家脑子里第一反应的估计都是loseweight.这个短语人人会用,用了也不稀奇,下面列举了些其他不那么“通俗”的“减肥”表达方法,看看你会不会用,会则加勉,不会的话就一起来了解下吧.

　　lose pounds

　　ge trid of one’s excess weight

　　shed extra pounds

　　burn off 500 calories

　　these pounds slowly come off.

　　remove weight

　　burn off the pounds

　　cut calories

　　take off pounds

　　melt away a few pounds

　　peel off some pounds

　　slice some pounds off one’sweight(这两个用法很形象,又是切又是削的。这点相信有过减肥经历的人比较能体会,身体上那几坨赘肉总感觉对自己不离不弃死生相随,真恨不得直接剁下来痛快干净)

　　drop the pounds,and keep them off.(最后这句最厉害了,瘦身产品的广告词里常吹嘘的所谓“不反弹”,英文就是这么表达的。)(作者：吴迪菲)