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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
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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2013-06-10
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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 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
问题是,在过去的二三十年里,我们一直认定妇女有能力,而且也愿意去做传统上男人和女人所做的一切工作。
解析
本题的难点在于名词短语the last generation和不定代词everything的翻译。这里the last generation并不是指"上一代人",而是指时间,即"二三十年"。另外,由于不定代词everything的指代不明确,不能因此而翻译为"所有的事情"。从第2段整体意思分析,这里是指妇女进入各种工作岗位,因此,这里需要将everything的所指具体化,翻译为"一切工作"。考查点:不定代词的所指的判断和翻译。
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