题目：
Nowadays, food has become easier toprepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons andexamples to support your answer.
如今，准备食物变得越来越容易了。这个变化改善了人们的生活方式了吗?使用具体原因和例子来支持你的回答。
With the development of new technologies,food has become easier to prepare than ever before. In my opinion, it bringsboth positive and negative influences on people’s lives.
随着新技术的发展，食品已成为比以往任何时候都更容易准备。在我看来，它会给人们的生活带来正面和负面的影响。
In the first place, food that is easier toprepare has an obvious advantage for new generations, who are leading theirlives in a more rapid pace. Fast-food restaurants such as McDonald’s exactlycater to our needs for a faster life. When I feel really hungry, traditionalcooking is just too slowly. However, fast food can instantly improve mysituation. As we save a large quantity of time previously used to prepare food,we can spend our time performing more important tasks, and therefore focusbetter on our work.
首先，在新新人类的生活里，食品容易准备具有明显的优势，由于他们的生活节奏比较快。快餐店，如麦当劳完全迎合我们生活节奏快的需求。当我感觉非常饿的时候，传统的烹饪太缓慢。然而，快餐可以即刻改善人们的情况。正如我们可以节省大量的时间用来准备食物，然后可以花时间执行更重要的任务，因此更好的关注我们的工作。
However, easier-to-prepare food also bringsabout some disadvantages to our lives.
然而，轻松就能做好的食物也有一些缺点。
Firstly, as we save more time focusing onwork instead of food, we tend to feel more and more stressed out due to thebusy cycle. Our already-too-fast life pace gets even speedier, which can bringabout negative psychological problems in workers. On the contrary, traditionalcooking style enables us to see the relaxing side of life, to stop and smellthe roses. Also, cooking itself is sometimes a relaxing process to relievepressure from workplaces. My mother loves to cook when she’s very tired afterwork, from which she can retrace the relaxation she needs.
首先，正如我们节省更多的时间专注于工作而不是食物，我们在繁忙的时候，感觉压力越来越大。快速的生活节奏变得更快，这可以在人们带来负面的心理问题。相反，传统的烹饪风格使我们放松的生活，停下来闻闻玫瑰花香。同时，烹饪本身有时是一个放松的过程，以减轻在工作场所的压力。我的妈妈喜欢做饭当她下班后很累，她可以追求一种放松。
Secondly, as food becomes easier toprepare, we gradually lose the right to enjoy top-class cooking. Because itdoes not cater to people’s needs for speed as well as fast foods does, and thusgradually decreases on the market. Many young people nowadays craze for PizzaHut, but they have no idea how traditional home-made pizzas taste differentlyand wonderfully.
其次，随着食物变得更容易准备，我们逐渐失去享受顶级的烹饪的权利。因为它不迎合人们的需求速度以及快餐食品，从而逐步减少在市场上出现的频率。正如很多现在的年轻人对必胜客的狂热，但不知道传统自制披萨味道的不同和奇妙。
Another drawback of easy-to-prepare food isthat in order to prepare food more easily, manufacturers add certain chemicalsto the food which are not completely healthy for us. For instance, McDonald’scontains too much calories and too little vegetation, which will cause unbalancein people’s nutrition.
食品容易准备的另一个缺点是，为了更容易准备食物，制造商将某些化学物质添加到食品使食物不完全健康。例如，麦当劳含有太多的卡路里和蔬果太少，经常食用将导致人们的营养不平衡。
To sum up, food has become easier toprepare during the past decade or so. The change has brought both positive andnegative influences on people’s lives.
总之，在过去十年里食物的准备变得容易了，而这一变化对人们的生活带来了正面和负面的影响。