新概念英语第四册07-04

wide choice: 大量的选择机会

coeducation: 男女同校 private school:私塾

wage-earner: 赚钱的人 bread-earner:养家糊口者

In your family ,who is the bread-earner?

相对而言，wage 给 labours而 salary 给白领阶层

good money 赚大钱

acquires:获得（easily get）不费吹灰之力

Man acquires the ability to speak. 强调自然获得

obtain 费尽心机

feeling of economic independence:经济独立感

sence of honor/pride/responsibility/master/humor/guilt

superiority complex:优越感 complex:情结 inferior complex:自卑感

textile areas:纺织业地区 如英国的 Manchester

it has long been customary :早就习以为常

maternal society:母系社会

working mother:职业母亲

more than doubled:远远超出了以前的两倍

but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not

unusual factor in a child’s Home life,the number of married women in employment

having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years。

the number of married women……years 是个省略谓语的独立主格句,主句的主语和短语的主语完全不同。

something 后置定语 be of 结构

smething valuable greatly/smething greatly valuable

prevent from

them: children

and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. The young wage-earner often earns good money, and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence.

In textile areas it has long been customary for mothers to go out to work, but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not unusual factor in a child's Home life, the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years. With mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. When mother works economic advantages

accrue, but children lose something of great value if mother's employment prevents her from being Home to greet them when they return from school.