A bad night's sleep may not just leave you tired and irritable. It could also raise your risk of diabetes.

　　一次糟糕的睡眠不单单会让你感到疲倦和恼怒，它也可能增加你患糖尿病的风险。

　　Just one night of tossing and turning and getting only four hours' sleep can 'profoundly' affect the body's ability to use insulin to convert sugar into energy.

　　你翻来覆去睡不着觉，并且只睡4个小时，这种情况只要一晚上，它就会对你身体通使用胰岛素将糖类转化成能量的能力能产生潜在的影响。

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        Disruption of this delicate process can lead to diabetes.

　　对这一微妙过程的扰乱就可能导致患糖尿病。

　　Complications arising from the condition include heart disease, blindness.

　　还有其他一些复杂的问题可能会接踵而至，比如心脏病以及失明。

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         With a soaring number of Britons developing diabetes - from 1.26million cases in 1996 to 2.35million today.

　　英国人患糖尿病的人数迅猛递增，这一人数已从1996年的126万增加到如今的235万。

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        To make the link, Dutch scientists looked at how effective the bodies of nine healthy volunteers were at processing sugar.

　　荷兰科学家们对九位身体健康的实验者进行调查，看看他们的身体是如何有效的进行糖类转化这一过程的。他们可以从中找到一些关联。

　　Halving the amount of sleep reduced the body's ability to use insulin to process sugar - known as insulin sensitivity - by up to a quarter.

　　如果把正常睡眠时间削减一半，那么身体使用胰岛素代谢糖分的能力会下降到25%，这种能力被我们称为“胰岛素敏感度”。