朱永涛《英美文化基础教程》笔记和课后习题详解(美国人的家庭生活)【圣才出品】

第8章美国人的家庭生活

8.1 复习笔记

American Family Life

1. Mobile Homes

2. Child-centered Culture

3. The Working Mother

4. Generation Gap

5. The Nuclear Family

American Family Life(美国家庭生活)

1. Mobile Homes(移动房屋)

(1) Mobile homes are living quarters built with wheels. They can be moved.

(2) But generally they are brought to a site that is intended to be more or less permanent.

(3) Because they cost much less than conventional homes, mobile homes are especially popular among young couples and elderly retired couples.

(4) More than seven million Americans live in mobile homes.

(1) 移动房屋是带有轮子的住宅。他们是可以移动的。

(2) 基本上它们都会被带往一个打算长居的地方。

(3) 因为他们的成本比传统的房子少，移动房屋在年轻夫妇和老年退休夫妇之间尤其受欢迎。

(4) 超过七百万的美国人住在活动房屋里。

2. Child-centered Culture(以孩子为中心的文化)

(1) Americans are so devoted and permissive toward their children that they create a child-centered culture.

(2) The ambitions of parents are more often related to their children’s lives than to their own.

(3) American parents try to give their youngsters many opportunities to develop skills and worthwhile interests.

(4) During the summer, parents try to give their children other kinds of learning experiences through camping or travel.

(1) 美国人十分爱护和放纵自己的孩子以至于他们创造了一个以儿童为中心的文化。

(2) 父母的愿望往往与他们孩子的生活关系更为密切。

(3) 美国的父母试图给他们的孩子更多发展技能和培养兴趣的机会。

(4) 在夏季，父母试图通过露营或旅游给他们的孩子创造其他种类的学习经验。

3. The Working Mother(工作的妈妈)

(1) It refers to American mothers with children under eighteen years of age who have jobs.

(2) There are about 10 million working mothers in the US.

(3) In some families, the working mother is a necessity because the father is unable to find employment or cannot earn enough for all the families’ basic

needs.

(4) In other households, the mother may work to supplement the father’s income so the family can enjoy a higher standard of living.

(5) Some women want to work because they find it boring to stay home alone all day.

(1) 指的是正在工作的且有18岁以下孩子的美国母亲。

(2) 美国大约有1亿位工作的母亲。

(3) 在一些家庭中，母亲工作是必要的，因为父亲无法找到工作或不能赚到足够的钱满足家庭的基本需求。

(4) 在其他家庭，母亲工作是为了补充父亲的收入，这样他们一家就可以享受更高的生活标准。

(5) 有些女人想工作，因为他们觉得整天呆在家里无聊。

4. Generation Gap(代沟)

(1) As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please and make decisions without parental interference.

(2) Parents want to guide them so that their behavior will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive.

(3) But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children often disagree about what is important and what is right, hence leading to generation gap.

(4) However, recent studies show that the “generation gap” is narrowing. The