No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
考虑到独自抚养孩子需要付出这么多努力，这并不令人意外；但据桑德拉和布兰妮所说，她们‘独自’抚养孩子（实际上是有全天候的帮忙）却是一件轻而易举的事。
More difficult, in the moment, is discerning precisely how these lean times are affecting society’s character.
然而，当下更困难的是准确判断这些艰难时期如何影响社会的性格。
The “mommy wars” of the 1990s are still going on today, prompting arguments about why women still can’t have it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, whose title has become a buzzword in its own right.
20世纪90年代的"妈妈之战"至今仍在继续，引发了关于为什么女性仍然无法兼顾一切的争论，也催生了像谢丽尔·桑德伯格的《向前一步》这样的书籍，其书名本身已成为一个流行语。
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The researchers looked at data that 7 measurements of lean muscle and abdominal fat from more than 4,000 middle-to-older-aged men and women and 8 that data to reported changes in fluid intelligence over a six-year period.
研究人员查看了来自 4000多名中年至老年男女的 7测量瘦肌肉和腹部脂肪的数据，并 8这些数据来报告六年内流体智力的变化。
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。