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Being a good parent is harder now that it has ever been before. In pressurized modern lives, demands to be a fulfilled individua

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问题     Being a good parent is harder now that it has ever been before. In pressurized modern lives, demands to be a fulfilled individual, and a good partner and a good worker, take no account of being a good parent. (46)We haven’t left space for the nurturing parents to care for their children and provide the kind of care that their children need, resulting in the fact that many families in the western world just don’t work.
    Most of us have a bit of yearning for a table full of children descending neatly in size, the older ones helping the younger ones. Let’s control our nostalgia: that" traditional family" had many faults, not least in the roles it imposed on females. (47)The problem is that in the last generation or so we’ve come to assume that women should be able and want to do everything that both men and women have done by tradition. And it’s just not possible. Indeed since adopting a male agenda in life is probably only another form of the traditional ethics that men are superior to women, quite a number of highly educated and economically privileged women are now opting to take career breaks so as to be at home with their children for longer than the 18 weeks.
    Having children—especially the first child—puts a bigger strain on a couple’s relationship than anything else they ever do. (48)Facing the ever-enormous stress caused by the kids, some who stay together emerge stronger and richer, but numerous couples never recover from the strain. Parents are often divided at many aspects of child nurturing, such as early education and habit forming. (49)So a future of smaller families and more people choosing not to have children at all could well leave couples closer than they are today; for many, the purpose of being together would be solely to pleasure and support each other—an interesting prospect. Let’s hope people in the future will only have children if they really want them. And that should mean something that is seen as a much more positive commitment than it is now, and that parents are socially supported, and admired for doing a good job.
    (50)The whole point of marriage is that it imposes clear obligations, not just the right to pursue your own happiness, the main part of which is to provide both emotional and practical nurture for children. Children demand sacrifice and altruism, a long-term investment of parental time and money. Of course, the highest reward that parents expect is to see their children develop and become useful talents for the society.

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答案婚姻的关键在于约束夫妻必须承担明确无误的责任，而不只是享有追求自身幸福的权利；婚姻的主要责任就是给予孩子感情上的关爱和物质上的养育。
解析 本题目的难点是非限定性定语从句的翻译。从句法结构上分析，可以看出非限定性定语从句的先行词是obligations。因此，在把定语从句拆开，翻译为独立句子时，应该重复"婚姻的责任"，以和前面的句子相照应。另外，物主代词your在句子中是虚指所有夫妻，不能翻译为"你(自身的幸福)"。最后，由于形容词emotional"感情上的"不宜和后面的名词nurture"养育/抚养"搭配，因此，在翻译中加上了名词"关爱"以和形容词"感情上的"相搭配，使句子更符合汉语表达法。查考点：非限定性定语从句的拆分和翻译。
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