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英语新词:"奈特尔"家庭是什么样的？

时间：2016-12-05 04:14:30

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 　　Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life, or NETTEL, refers to the risingpool of households headed by two high-income-earning, full-time1-working parents with dependent children.

　　NETTEL(Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life，无暇享受生活，简称“奈特尔”)指夫妻为高收入全职人员、家中又有孩子需要照顾的家庭。
　　Here are two parents working full-time earning lots of moneybut struggling to balance the commitments that come with a demanding job and an even moredemanding family life. In many families it's a case of got enough money but hasn’t got enoughtime to enjoy life. These stressed-out Nettel parents are forever scheduling, scheming anddiarising about how to execute the next day's events.
　　这样的家庭中，父母全职工作，收入也不少，但无法同时兼顾工作职责和家庭生活。很多家庭都是有钱却没时间享受生活。这些压力重重的“奈特尔(NETTEL)”父母永远都在排日程、列计划，记录着要怎样完成第二天的事务。
　　英语新词:"奈特尔"家庭是什么样的？
　　And, by some bizarre twist of logic2, many of these parents seem to revel3 in the scheduling frenzy4.In a materialistic5 go-getter world, a couple's ability to juggle6 and to control life's commercial andfamilial demands merely confirms their superior "alpha" status.
　　而且，基于某种奇怪的逻辑，这些父母似乎很享受这种日程堆积的状态。因为在崇尚物质第一的世界里，一对夫妇调节和掌控财务及家庭需求的能力就能够证明他们超级“强者”的地位。

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1 full-time SsBz42     
adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的
参考例句：
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。
2 logic j0HxI     
n.逻辑(学)；逻辑性
参考例句：
  • What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
  • I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。
3 revel yBezQ     
vi.狂欢作乐，陶醉；n.作乐，狂欢
参考例句：
  • She seems to revel in annoying her parents.她似乎以惹父母生气为乐。
  • The children revel in country life.孩子们特别喜欢乡村生活。
4 frenzy jQbzs     
n.疯狂，狂热，极度的激动
参考例句：
  • He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
  • They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。
5 materialistic 954c43f6cb5583221bd94f051078bc25     
a.唯物主义的，物质享乐主义的
参考例句：
  • She made him both soft and materialistic. 她把他变成女性化而又实际化。
  • Materialistic dialectics is an important part of constituting Marxism. 唯物辩证法是马克思主义的重要组成部分。
6 juggle KaFzL     
v.变戏法，纂改，欺骗，同时做；n.玩杂耍，纂改，花招
参考例句：
  • If you juggle with your accounts,you'll get into trouble.你要是在帐目上做手脚，你可要遇到麻烦了。
  • She had to juggle her job and her children.她得同时兼顾工作和孩子。