我們都知道80后的一代被稱為Generation Y， 他們前面的那一代是Generation X，可是你聽說過Generation XL嗎？

Generation XL refers to children or young adults who are overweight, XL refers to the size extra large in clothing.

Generation XL指體重超重的兒童或年輕人，即“超大碼一代”或“超重的一代”，XL代表衣服尺寸中的超大碼。

Meet Generation XL. Like college freshmen who get fat from too much dorm food and too little activity, many cubicle potatoes lead very unhealthy lives. They have erratic eating habits and indulge in too much late-afternoon or late-night high-fat snacking. They are only half joking when they say their only physical activity is surfing the Internet.

來會(huì)一會(huì)超大碼一代吧。跟吃太多宿舍食品和運(yùn)動(dòng)太少而長胖的大學(xué)新生一樣，很多整天待在格子間的員工都過著很不健康的生活。他們飲食不規(guī)律，經(jīng)常在下午或者深夜吃很多高熱量的零食。他們開玩笑說他們唯一的體育運(yùn)動(dòng)是網(wǎng)上沖浪，其實(shí)這玩笑有一半說的是事實(shí)。

If researchers are correct that people in the so-called Generation X, the generation born between the early 1960s and the early 1980s, are heavier and less physically active than people in that age group five to 10 years ago, that would make them Generation XL. (Source: Word Spy)

研究人員表示，現(xiàn)在的“X一代”，也就是上世紀(jì)60年代早期至80年代早期期間出生的一代人，比5到10年前的同齡人體重更重，運(yùn)動(dòng)更少。如果這一說法無誤，那么他們這一代人就是“超大碼一代”。

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