在實體及線上課程中,我經常遇到英文基礎不錯的學員詢問:「如何進一步提升學術英文的閱讀及寫作表達能力?」對於這個問題,我的建議非常明確且實用——每日持續閱讀歐美知名新聞週刊及學術期刊。透過這樣的日常練習,學員能夠逐步達到英美專業人士的語言表達水準。
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實例分析
以下將透過2025年9月12日刊登的間歇性斷食(intermittent fasting)醫學報導作為範例,示範如何運用此方法深入提升進階英文閱讀與寫作能力。
Why Intermittent Fasting May Do More Harm Than Good
間歇性斷食可能弊大於利?
Whether intermittent fasting helps anyone is unclear, but it does have known health risks. Who can try the dieting trend, and who should avoid it?
間歇性斷食是否真的有益健康仍未明朗,但其已知的健康風險卻不容忽視。誰適合嘗試這種飲食趨勢?誰又應該避免?
September 12, 2025
2025年9月12日
By Frederik Jötten edited by Lauren J. Young
作者:Frederik Jötten|編輯:Lauren J. Young
Recent headlines warning of concerns such as heart risks or danger to teenagers have put a new spotlight on a diet trend that has long been the popular epitome of a healthy lifestyle: intermittent fasting.
近來的新聞標題警告心臟風險與青少年健康危機,使這項長期被視為健康生活典範的飲食法——間歇性斷食——再次成為焦點。

圖片及英文原文出處:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-intermittent-fasting-helpful-or-harmful/
“Intermittent fasting’s image has been deeply tarnished—and quite rightly so,” says Stefan Kabisch, a physician at the endocrinology and metabolic medicine department at Charité–University Medicine Berlin. “The hype was never really backed up by good data in humans.”
「間歇性斷食的形象已嚴重受損,而且是有其道理的,」柏林夏里特大學醫學中心內分泌與代謝醫學部門的醫師 Stefan Kabisch 表示。「這股熱潮從未真正建立在可靠的人類數據之上」。
Advocates have claimed that temporarily abstaining from food for long stretches of the day can improve health and longevity. In the most common fasting schedule, people don’t eat for 16 hours—often skipping breakfast or dinner—and make up for it in the remaining eight hours (the so-called 16:8 method). Some people may severely limit food intake every other day (alternate-day fasting) or take a fasting day twice a week (the 5:2 method).
擁護者主張,每日長時間暫時戒食有助於改善健康與延年益壽。最常見的斷食模式是「16:8法」:人們每天禁食16小時——通常跳過早餐或晚餐——並在剩下的8小時內進食。 另有些人採取「隔日斷食法」(alternate-day fasting),每隔一天大幅限制食物攝取;或是每週選擇兩天進行斷食,即「5:2法」。

圖片及英文原文出處:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-intermittent-fasting-helpful-or-harmful/