一项澳大利亚的研究表明：沙发土豆的寿命较短。
A new study from Australia suggests that couch potatoes live shorter lives.
沙发土豆喜欢看电视就像鼠标土豆享受工作的电脑上。
Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as mouse potatoes enjoy working on computers.
买的小吃很多，所以我可以躺在我的沙发，做一个沙发土豆。
Bought lots of snacks so I could lie on my sofa and be a couch potato.
是去美术馆还是做个沙发土豆，宅在家边吃薯条喝啤酒，边看电视。
So going to an art museum or being a couch potato and swilling beer, watching television at home.
他们通过对短跑运动员解剖分析，发现这些人的足部同“沙发土豆”不尽相同。
They have looked at the anatomy of sprinters and found that their feet are built differently from those of couch potatoes.
同时，这个国家是欧洲胖子最多的国家之列，“沙发土豆”们的数量也继续增长。
Meanwhile, in a country that is among the fattest in Europe, the number of couch potatoes apparently continues to grow.
也许最大的危险来自于缺乏锻炼，其后果被专业沙发土豆称为电视肚。
Perhaps the greatest of these results from the lack of exercise, and is referred to by professional coach potatoes as telly belly.
美国一些研究人员一直在寻找在新的方式，如何让那些“沙发土豆”们多活动身体。
Some US researchers have been looking at novel ways to increase the level of activity among those with "couch potato" lifestyles.
也许最大的危险来自于缺乏锻炼，其后果被专业沙发土豆称为电视肚。
Perhaps the greatest of these results from the lack of exercise, and is referred to by professional coach potatoes as telly belly.
例如，花很多时间坐着或躺着看电视的人，有时就被称做“电视迷”（沙发土豆）。
For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato .
另一方面，一些知名的沙发土豆包括犬斗牛犬，巴吉度猎犬，松狮犬，罗威和圣伯纳德。
On the other hand, some well-known canine couch potatoes include the Bulldog, Basset Hound, Chow Chow, Rottweiler and Saint Bernard.
过去纯播送时代被动的“沙发土豆”们变成了频道浏览者，游移于数百个有线频道之中。
The passive couch potato of the broadcast era turned into the channel surfer, flipping through hundreds of cable channels.
或者他们也许会离开，因为他们觉得讨论自己的体重，吸烟，饮酒或沙发土豆这些习惯很令人尴尬。
Or they may stay away because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, smoking, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits.
英国土豆农带着土豆来到大街上呼吁将“沙发土豆”一词从词典中剔除出去因其破坏了蔬菜的形像。
British potato farmers were taking to the street to call for the Expression "couch potato" to be struck from the dictionary on the grounds hat it harms he vegetable 's image.
当然这并不是牛津英语字典的过失但我们希望用另一词语来代替‘沙发土豆’，因为土豆天生是健康的。
Of course it is not the Oxford English Dictionary's fault but we want to use another term than ' couch potato' , because potatoes are naturally healthy"."
实际上，研究告诉我们人到中年开始运动的大学书呆子，活得过后来变成沙发土豆的顶级高校联赛运动员。
In fact, research tells us that college nerds who take up exercise in mid-life live longer than topflight collegiate athletes who later become sofa spuds.
如果一个运动迷和一个“沙发土豆”结婚了，最后的结局可能是运动迷被说服，两人一起窝在家里看电视。
Or if you're an exercise fanatic who married a couch potato, they'll probably convince you to stay on the sofa.
别再整天蹲在家里做沙发土豆了，来跟着这张生存图表一起，找好必要的装备，并时刻准备着那一刻的到来。
Don't stay at home all day doing couch potatoes, to follow the live chart, find the necessary equipment, and ready at that moment to come.
仅在几十年前，人们最担心的是电视——那个时代主要的媒体——创造出了毫无想象力的“沙发土豆”一代，幸好不是智能上的植物人。
Only a few decades ago the prevailing worry was that television, the reigning medium at the time, was creating a generation of unimaginative couch potatoes, if not intellectual vegetables.
较大的狗，如前面提到的沙发土豆也可以制作出极好的公寓狗，甚至更高的能量动物可高兴了，如果你有一个漂亮的大公园附近的那么活跃。
Larger dogs that are less active such as the couch potatoes mentioned earlier can also make excellent apartment dogs and even a higher-energy animal can be happy if you have a nice big park nearby.
牛津英语字典解释“沙发土豆”起源于一美国俚语，表示“一位身着燕尾服的人消极地或懒散地坐着度过悠闲的时光，主要是看电视或录像带”。
The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a pennon who spends leisure –time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes" .
有关‘土豆沙发’使用的最早历史记录是在1979年的《洛杉矶时代》的一篇文章上。
"The first known recorded use of the expression 'couch potato' was in a 1979 Los Angeles Times article, " Simpson said.
有关‘土豆沙发’使用的最早历史记录是在1979年的《洛杉矶时代》的一篇文章上。
"The first known recorded use of the expression 'couch potato' was in a 1979 Los Angeles Times article, " Simpson said.
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