英语一2011 阅读四

重点单词
provocative	挑衅的，引诱的，煽动的
chart	图标，制定计划
xx anything less than…	xx比不上…
miserable	痛苦的，可怜的
crush	压碎，压伤
dampen	抑制，弄湿
intense	激烈的
rather than	而不是，与其
gratification	满足，满意
newstands	报纸架
practically	几乎，差不多
procreation	生殖，生产
provok to wonder	激发好奇心
misery	痛苦，悲惨
dumb	哑的，不肯开口的
gossip	八卦，八卦的人
entertain	娱乐，使快乐
soothing	安慰性的，催眠的
compensatory	补偿的，补充的
intensify	加剧，增强

Text4

第一段 1.It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I love My Children, I Hate My Life, " is arousing much chatter —— nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

语法：开头主语从句，后面的"I love My Children, I Hate My Life, "应该是构成了前面的状语，再后面的"I love My Children, I Hate My Life, "是"I love My Children, I Hate My Life, "的同位语。

翻译：在J.S故事中的煽动性言论中所表现处的洞察力是不让人意外的，“我喜欢我的孩子，我讨厌我的生活。”这句话唤起了太多的画面——没有什么话题能像孩子哭绝不是一个美好的经历这个建议一样引发人们的讨论。

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

语法：rather than：有"与其…宁愿…"的意思。

翻译：专家认为：与其总结孩子是给父母带来快乐还是痛苦，倒不如重新定义快乐——不是用瞬间的快乐去衡量它，而是体会在痛苦过后的快乐。

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.”

翻译：专家写道：“虽然日常生孩子的经历会压的我们喘不过气，但在压抑了我们情绪之后却会带来强烈的快乐。”

The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.

语法：is hardly the only：难以是唯一的。
翻译：在本周的报架上的封面杂志上大量刊登着麦当娜和孩子所照的极富魅力的慈母携婴图。

There are also stories about newly adoptive - and newly single - mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.

语法：about 后面跟的as well as 构成并列。
翻译：也有很多诸如1.新的单亲领养妈妈S.B和2.J.A 怀孕了的新闻。

Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

翻译：至少以为名人妈妈或准妈妈在报架上微笑几乎已经成为了每周特色。

In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing?
翻译：而在这种风气下，又是否想过，在一个如此在意名人生殖的社会，承认你后悔生小孩和承认你支持杀小孩又有什么区别呢？

It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless.
相比于后悔当父母，这对于那些后悔丁克的人来说似乎有些不公平。

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.

语法：the gaping baby-size holes：孩子形状的洞状缺口，即却一个孩子。
翻译：不开心的父母很少会激发出自己是否应该要孩子的想法，但不开心的丁克却都苦恼于漫天的孩子是世界上最重要的事这一信息：显然，他们的苦恼都是源自生活中没有孩子。

Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.

翻译：当然，诸如《美国周刊》和《人们》这样的著名杂志中所展现的父母是非常不现实的，尤其是那些诸如布劳克这样的单亲妈妈。

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

翻译：根据通常调查所得到的结论：父母一般会比丁克群体更不开心，而单亲父母则是最痛苦的。

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.

翻译：可以想到在没有搭档可以依靠的情况下，生孩子有多少工作要做，但桑德拉和布莱尼却说生孩子是一个甜蜜的蛋糕（在小时工的帮助下）

It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

翻译：难以想象有多少父母仅因为瑞兹和安吉丽娜让它看起来很有吸引力而选择生孩子后只能哑巴吃黄连，大多数父母明白，这并不是剪头发。

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.

语法：“we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood”和“the images”是同位语
翻译：但去思考是否那些没有压力，快乐的父母形象在微妙的，潜移默化的消除我们实际经历中的不满，同样的我们中的一小部分人也希望通过这样来是我们看起来更像珍妮弗一点。

Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring
[A] temporary delight.
[B] enjoyment in progress.
[C] happiness in retrospect.
[D] lasting reward.
3 7. We learn from Paragraph 2 that
[A] celebrity morns are a permanent source for gossip.
[B] single mothers with babies deserve greater attention.
[C] news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining.
[D] having children is highly valued by the public.
It is suggested in Paragraph 3 that childless folks
[A] are constantly exposed to criticism.
[B] are largely ignored by the media.
[C] fail to fulfill their social responsibilities.
[D] are less likely to be satisfied with their life.
According to Paragraph 4, the message conveyed by celebrity magazines is
[A] soothing.
[B] ambiguous.
[C] compensatory.
[D] misleading.
Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?
[A] Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity morns.
[B] Celebrity morns have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.
[C] Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.
[D] We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing .

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