Eye-popping prize money was to be provided—in exchange for a 49% share—by a consortium led by SoftBank, a Japanese firm with a penchant for big, risky bets, and Saudi Arabia, which hoped to host the resulting tournament.

软银和沙特阿拉伯牵头的财团将提供多的令人瞠目结舌的奖金，为此他们可以换取赛事49%的股份。软银是一家喜欢高风险大赌注的日本公司，沙特阿拉伯希望主办下一届世界杯。

1.consortium: a group of companies or organizations who are working together to do something

2.penchant: if you have a penchant for something, you like that thing very much and try to do it or have it often

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A recommendation to drink eight glasses of water a day is likely to be excessive for most people, according to scientists. The suggestion has become accepted wisdom and often appears in health guidance. The latest work, however, the most rigorous study to date on water turnover, reveals that people have a wide range of water intakes. Many people only require about 1.5 to 1.8 litres a day, lower than the two litres typically recommended, the research suggests.

The study, published in the journal Science, assessed the water intake of 5,604 people aged between eight days and 96 years old from 23 countries. The research involved people drinking a glass of water in which some of the hydrogen atoms were replaced by deuterium, a stable isotope of hydrogen that is found naturally in the human body and is harmless.

The rate of elimination of the extra deuterium reveals how quickly water in the body is turned over, and the study found the measure varied widely depending on a person’s age, gender, activity levels and surrounding. Those living in hot and humid climates and at high altitudes as well as athletes and pregnant and breastfeeding women had higher turnover, meaning they need to drink more water.

Energy expenditure is the biggest factor in water turnover, with the highest values observed in men aged 20 to 35, with an average of 4.2 litres a day. This decreased with age, averaging 2.5 litres a day for men in their 90s. Women aged 20 to 40 had an average turnover of 3.3 litres, which declined to 2.5 litres by the age of 90. Athletes turn over about a litre more than non-athletes. Newborn babies turned over the largest proportion, replacing about 28% of the water in their bodies every day.

Although drinking more water than your body requires is unlikely to be harmful for health, clean drinking water is not free to produce, the authors point out. “There is a cost to drinking more than we need even if it’s not a health cost,” said Speakman.

本文节选自：The Guardian（卫报）

发布时间：2022.11.25

作者：Hannah Devlin

原文标题：Eight glasses of water a day excessive for most people, study suggests

    1.energy expenditure 能量消耗

The suggestion has become accepted wisdom and often appears in health guidance.

结构：… has become accepted wisdom and often appears in health guidance.

…已经成为公认的常识，并经常出现在健康指南中。

例句：Balanced diet has become accepted wisdom and often appears in health guidance.

翻译 | 大橙子

校对 | 初夏的雨

词汇词组 | 西西弗

划线句讲解 | 流木

写作句总结 | 沅沅