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嘿嘿，我最近在想是不是用一些考研英语阅读里的文章来做精读也挺好的
因为能被选中作为考题的文章其实在文章结构和选材上也更具备代表性
长度也合适，节选一般是5/6段左右，一次阅读一篇也不费劲
并不是想一出是一出有做一个新板块哈
只是我觉得英语类的内容可能对我个人来讲都差不多
能够对更多的读者有用当然就最好啦~~~
（咳咳我自己挖的坑我都记得~会慢慢填上滴！）
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文章节选自时代周刊：Why you"re more stressed by home than work（为什么你在家待着比上班压力更大）
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①A new study suggests that contrary tomost surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work. ②Researchers measured people’s cortisol, which is stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.
一项新的研究表明，与大多数调查相反，人们实际上在家里比在工作中更有压力。研究人员测量了人们在工作和在家时的皮质醇(一种压力标记物)，发现在本应是放松的地方皮质醇水平更高。
contrary to：与...相反。cortisol：n. [ktsl] [生化] 皮质醇while在这里相当于when（在....时候）be supposed to: 本该是...；应该是....（暗示与现实或者人们常规认为的事实相反）a place of refuge:直译是避难所，这里意译概括成了“（让人）放松的地方”。refuge：n. [refjud] 避难；避难所；庇护
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①“Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home,” writes one of the researchers, Sarah Damaske. ②In fact women even say they feel better at work, she notes, “It is men, not women, who report being happier at home than at work.” ③Another surprise is thatthe findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. ④This is why people who work outside the home have better health.
“与传统观念进一步矛盾的是，我们发现，女性和男性在工作中都比在家里的压力小，”研究人员之一萨拉·达马斯克写道。事实上，女性甚至说她们在工作时感觉更好，她指出，“报告在家比工作更快乐的是男性，而不是女性。”另一个令人惊讶的是，这一发现对有孩子和没有孩子的人都适用，但对没有孩子的人更是如此。这就是为什么外出工作的人身体更健康。
这里的Further contradicting conventional wisdom“进一步矛盾”是相对于上文中people are actually more stressed at home than at work这个观点更加矛盾。contradict： [kntrdkt] vt. 反驳；否定 同义替换上文的contrary第①句讲进一步的矛盾（也就是研究的新发现）②③句的In fact...和Another surprise is that 都属于进一步阐释发现的内容（与 conventional wisdom相反）。第④句是对于新发现的总结。hold true：适用；有效；站得住脚nonparent：没有为人父母；还没生孩子。
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①What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office. ②For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. ③For women who stay home, they never get to leave the office. ④And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks. ⑤With the blurringof roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it’s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.
该研究没有考虑到的是人们在家是不是还在工作，家务或是从办公室带回家的工作都算。对许多男人来说，下班后就是放松一下的时候。对于呆在家里的女性来说，她们从来没有真正意义上离开“办公室”。而对于外出工作的女性来说，她们通常都在忙着做家务。随着角色的模糊，以及事实上，在为职业女性做出（工作）调整时，家庭问题（永远是）远远落后于工作考虑的，所以女性在家里压力更大也就不足为奇了。
第①句指出这项研究的一个缺点，和上一段相比是转折。②③④对比了工作男性、待在家里的女性以及工作女性的差别，⑤指出职业女性压力更大。kick back：平静下来；放松一下playing catch-up-with-household tasks：play...tasks:完成...任务。catch-up-with：赶上，追上。blur：v.[bl(r)] 使……模糊不清，变模糊lags well behind：远远落后于.... lag behind:落后 well：熟词僻意 在这里是 很；相当；大大地；远远地 的意思making adjustments for：为...做出调整
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①But it’s not just a gender thing. ②At work, people pretty muchknow what they’re supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income. ③The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.
但这不仅仅是一个性别问题。在工作中，人们非常了解他们应该做什么:工作、赚钱、为了获得收入而做那些必须做的事情。③交易非常纯粹:员工投入数小时的体力或脑力劳动，然后拿到维持生命的一笔钱。
a gender thing:性别问题pretty much：几乎；相当；很draw an income：获得收入puts in 和 draws out 是一组反义词组。put in:投入；draw out：拿到；收获。作者这么用对比感很强，也非常干脆。moola： ["mulɑ] n. 金钱，钞票（等于 money）其实在这篇阅读理解中moola是一个考点，根据上下文猜这个词的意思。
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①On the home front, however, people have no such clarity. ②Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinicallyand methodically laid out. ③There are a lot of tasks to be done, there are inadequate rewards for most of them. ④Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they’re teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. ⑤Plus, they’re your family. ⑥You cannot fire your family. ⑦You never really get to go home from home.
然而在家里呢，人们却没有这样清晰的认识。很少有家庭的劳动分工是如此客观而有条理地安排的。要做的事情有很多，但大多数都没有足够的奖励。你家里的同事——你的家人——对他们的劳动没有明确的回报;他们需要被说服，或者如果他们是青少年，威胁他们完全移除所有电子设备。而且，他们是你的家人。你不能解雇你的家人。在家里你也永远不可能下班回家。
On the ... front：在..里/方面Rare is the household....倒装句，形容词rare提前，作为主语的补语，表示强调。这句话要是按照正常语序说是：the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out in the household is rare。clinically：adv. [klnkli] 不偏不倚地methodically：adv. [mθdkli] 有方法地；有条不紊地laid out：安排；陈列be talked into：被说服（去做某事）removal：n. [rmuvl] 除去；消除；清除Plus：在这里是连词，意思是 而且，另外
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①So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home. ②Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the co-workers are much harder tomotivate.
所以人们在家里压力更大就不足为奇了。不仅仅因为工作任务明显无穷无尽，而且激励同事也要困难得多。
apparently infinite：明显无穷无尽。副词作定语修饰形容词。apparently：adv. [prntli] 显然地；似乎，表面上motivate: v. [mtvet] v. 刺激，使有动机，激发…的积极性He is motivated entirely by self-interest. 他做事完全出于私利。
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