burn calories

基本解释

As you gain muscle, your body gains a bigger "engine" to burn calories more efficiently — which can result in weight loss.
你增加肌肉的同时，身体会获得更加强大的“发动机”以更高效地燃烧卡路里，这会让你体重减轻。
Scientists believe they have identified a 'good' fat tissue that helps burn calories and may lead to new treatments for obesity.
科学家们相信他们发现了一种帮助燃烧卡路里的“有益”脂肪组织，可能会产生治疗肥胖症的新方法。
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Regular strength training can help you reduce body fat, strengthen your muscles and more efficiently burn calories.
规律的力量训练能够帮助您减少身体多余的脂肪，加强您的肌肉力量，更有效地燃烧卡路里。

To lose that fat in a week, you have to burn off at least that amount in calories or eat that much less.
As we'll discuss in the class, and most of you probably know this, your body weight is a function of how many calories you take in and how many calories you burn off through metabolic processes but also physical activity.
我们将会讲到,而且你们中的大部分人可能也知道,你的体重随着卡路里的摄取量,和代谢中的消耗量而变化,还跟肢体活动有关
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Here are humans who had to walk long distances potentially to find the food, kill the food at great risk to themselves; inspiring a cascade of physiological effects that have to do with fear and arousal and things like that, not to mention all the calories one would burn doing this kind of activity.
这些人可能需要走很远的路,去寻找食物,冒着巨大危险,杀死猎物,人们耗费能量以激活一系列生理效应,用以战胜恐惧,引发斗志,更不用说人们在狩猎的过程中,消耗的卡路里量了
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For example, how many times have you heard that sexual intercourse is a great way to burn calories?
FORBES: Sorry, You Can't Sex Yourself Thin (But You Can Kill Your Sex Life with Fat)