But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting "the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
但有趣的是,我们每周看到的那些无忧无虑、充满幸福感的父母形象,是否在某种程度上、潜移默化地加剧了我们对实际育儿体验的不满?就像我们内心深处曾希望剪个‘瑞秋头’就能稍微像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿一点那样。
Today, the 15 of work may be a bit overblown.
如今,工作的第 15 个方面可能有些夸张。
They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have “done our bit” without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions – a kind of “moral licensing” that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.
它们甚至可能适得其反,满足了我们‘已经尽了一份力’的心理需求,却从未推动我们采取更大胆、更有效的行动——这类似于一种‘道德授权’,减轻了我们的担忧,阻止我们做更多事或对掌权者提出更高要求。
3, there’s another sort of parent that’s a bit easier to 4: a patient parent.
3,还有另一种父母类型更容易被 4:一位耐心的父母。
And then the 9 happens: You lose your patience and either scream at your kids or say something that was a bit too 10 and does nobody any good.
然后第 9 件事发生了:你失去了耐心,要么对孩子们大喊大叫,要么说出一些过于 10 的话,对任何人都没有好处。
例句取自历年考研英语真题,翻译为机器生成,仅供学习参考。