Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that "the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.
尽管养育孩子的日常体验可能令人精神崩溃地艰难，Senior 写道："那些在当下让我们情绪低落的事情，日后可能会成为带来强烈满足感和愉悦感的源泉。"
Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
不快乐的父母很少会去想自己是否不该生孩子，而不快乐的无子女者却总是被灌输‘孩子是世界上最重要的东西’这一信息：显然，他们的痛苦必定是直接源于生活中那些空缺的、本应有孩子的巨大缺口。
I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development.
我之前没有意识到市场营销趋势在多大程度上决定了我们对儿童自然天性的认知，包括我们对她们心理发展的核心信念。
Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a “third stepping stone” between infant wear and older kids’ clothes.
行业出版物建议百货商店，为了增加销量，他们应该在婴儿服装和较大儿童服装之间创造一个‘第三阶段’的产品。
Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits.
将儿童或成人划分为越来越细的类别已被证明是提高利润的稳妥方法。
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。