西南大学18年12月[0169]《汉译英》参考资料

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1. Now I am the father of several children. I love children, but I don't have the idea of fathers of my predecessors. Helping children to old age is not enough. I praised the virtues of my fathers, but I couldn't follow them. I feel that my children are tired of me and I am bound to a great extent. I have no permanent plan for them, not even the shortest. "If someone asks, I'd like to give them away!" I often say, when I'm tired of children. Alas, compared with the fathers of the previous generation, I think our generation is poor in vitality. Our people in their twenties and thirties are not as strong as their predecessors in their sixties and seventies. Although they die of old age, they are really alive now and in the future. And we, though alive, are already dead.

2.George Clooney was undoubtedly one of Hollywood's most successful actors, but it wasn't until he married Amal Alamuddin that he suddenly joined forces to form another identity, a "working couple". Dual-career couples refer to two people who want to succeed in their respective fields while supporting each other's ambitions. This relationship takes many forms. Obviously, both of them may not have their own careers, but research shows that if you are now in partnership, you and your spouse have paid jobs in most cases. For example, about 48% of married couples in the United States are now "dual workers", compared with 25% in 1960. For families with children, the proportion would increase to 61%. In Britain, about two-thirds of families with two adults have two incomes