万花筒 2013-06-11&06-14 减肥狂人：纹身表决心

 Get ready to be inspired! Last night on Extreme Weight Loss we met Meredith Prince, 25 years old,  a teacher who wanted to lose more than half of her body weight. Take a look at her incredible¹ journey.For most of her life, 24-year-old Meredith has struggled with her weight and her identity².

 

-I always knew I was adopted. They are small, and I'm not, at all. I just, I never felt like I fit into my own family.

 

Years of yoyo dieting has brought her to 314 pounds. So this kindergarten teacher from Rochester, New York, reaches out to Chris Powell, who waits no time getting Meredith into boot camp.

 

-Finish this. Finish what we start.

 

She wants to weigh 155 pounds, a goal she's tatooed on her stomach.

 

-When I come to see you in 90 days, you need to have lost 80 pounds.

 

And while it isn't easy.

 

-We're gonna run from this lifeguard station down to that lifeguard station.

 

Meredith meets the challenges head on.

 

-Oh, my gosh, Meredith, you just drop 84 pounds. Oh, my gosh!

 

And over the next year. 

 

-You lost 32 pounds, you down another 22.

 

So does Meredith make it down to 155?

 

-Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the all new Meredith!

 

 

 

So, here it is, the moment we've been waiting for. There she was and here she is now. Meredith Prince and Chris Powell. Congratulations!

 

-Thank you. Thank you so much.

 

-Hi, Chris! You've done it again. Congratulations! I want to give you this. I know you want to show us something.

 

-Exactly, I do.

 

-Would you share with us how far you have come.

 

-I'd like to. So, here is the heaviest, I was over 400 pounds at one point. And here are we are today and at 155 pounds, and it's amazing. It's such a journey.

 

-Congratulations!

 

-Thank you.

 

-So all deserves³ it.

 

-Chris, host an Extreme Weight Loss, and choose more, lose more. You've seen it before, but you said Meredith's journey was especially inspiring.

 

-It was. So much so that she has tatooed her goal on her body. I mean that shows her dedication⁴, but it's also one of important things we can all do is we need to know where we are going. We need to have that purpose. That's exactly what she did and sure now she got there.

 

-You got there and we are so thrilled to see it. Thank you for inspiring us. And I also want to share with everybody some very exciting news about you, Chris. So won't you tell us?

 

-We've got baby number four on the way. Baby number four, yes!

 

-Our friend Chris, expanding a family. Thank you so much for inspiring all of us, and everybody you can check out amazing transformations⁵ evrey week on Extreme Weight Loss Tuesdays, 8/7 central on ABC.

1 incredible   

adj.难以置信的，不可信的，极好的，大量的

参考例句：

• Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
• Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。

2 identity   

n.身份，本体，特征；同一(性)，一致

参考例句：

• He never revealed his identity.他从未暴露过自己的身份。
• He showed his identity card and went in.他把工作证亮了一下就进去了。

3 deserves   

v.应受，应得，值得( deserve的第三人称单数 )；应受报答；应得报酬；应得赔偿

参考例句：

• A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon. 不能宽恕故意犯下的错误。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He is the only poet in this country that deserves the name. 他是这个国家唯一的一位名副其实的诗人。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 dedication   

n.奉献，献身，致力，题献，献辞

参考例句：

• We admire her courage,compassion and dedication.我们钦佩她的勇气、爱心和奉献精神。
• Her dedication to her work was admirable.她对工作的奉献精神可钦可佩。

5 transformations   

n.变化( transformation的名词复数 )；转换；转换；变换

参考例句：

• Energy transformations go on constantly, all about us. 在我们周围，能量始终在不停地转换着。 来自辞典例句
• On the average, such transformations balance out. 平均起来，这种转化可以互相抵消。 来自辞典例句