Generation XL refers to children or young adults who are overweight, XL refers to the size extra large in clothing.

 

Generation XL指体重超重的儿童或年轻人，即“超大码一代”或“超重的一代”，XL代表衣服尺寸中的超大码。

 

Meet Generation XL. Like college freshmen¹ who get fat from too much dorm food and too little activity, many cubicle² potatoes lead very unhealthy lives. They have erratic³ eating habits and indulge in too much late-afternoon or late-night high-fat snacking. They are only half joking when they say their only physical activity is surfing the Internet.

 

来会一会超大码一代吧。跟吃太多宿舍食品和运动太少而长胖的大学新生一样，很多整天待在格子间的员工都过着很不健康的生活。他们饮食不规律，经常在下午或者深夜吃很多高热量的零食。他们开玩笑说他们唯一的体育运动是网上冲浪，其实这玩笑有一半说的是事实。

 

If researchers are correct that people in the so-called Generation X, the generation born between the early 1960s and the early 1980s, are heavier and less physically⁴ active than people in that age group five to 10 years ago, that would make them Generation XL. (Source: Word Spy)

 

研究人员表示，现在的“X一代”，也就是上世纪60年代早期至80年代早期期间出生的一代人，比5到10年前的同龄人体重更重，运动更少。如果这一说法无误，那么他们这一代人就是“超大码一代”。

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