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中国考博辅导首选学校 北京外国语大学考博英语阅读真题解析 Text 4 It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “ love My Children, Hate My Life,” isarousing much chatter –nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing isanything lessthan a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggestswe need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something thatcanbemeasuredbymoment-to-moment joy,we shouldconsiderbeing happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experienceofraisingkidscanbe soul-crushinglyhard,Seniorwrites that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.” PS:The waytocontactyumingkaoboTEL:silingling-liuliuba-liujiu qiba QQ:772678537) （ 毫无疑问，Jennifer Senior在有煸动意味的的杂志封面故事中表达了 她的独到见解， “我爱我的孩子们，我讨厌我的生活”——这唤起了人们 的谈兴。人们一谈到养孩子就会觉得这是一件完全令人愉悦、生活充实的事 情。Jennifer Senior没有指出养孩子到底是使得父母快乐呢还是痛苦呢， 她倒是认为，我们需要重新定义幸福：幸福不应该是一个个瞬间的快乐组合 的可以被衡量的东西;我们应该把幸福视为一种过去式的状态。尽管抚养孩 子的日子漫长难熬，令人筋疲力尽，但是JenniferSenior认为，正是那些 心绪沉重的时刻，日后却成为我们欢乐的源泉。 The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute 中国考博辅导首选学校 baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There arealso storiesaboutnewly adoptive –andnewly single –mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands. 杂志封面上一位给力的母亲抱着一个可爱的婴儿，这种圣母与圣子(麦 当娜和孩子)的图画这周在杂志上多次出现。例如杂志上讲到最近刚收养孩 子的母亲——有时是刚变成单身母亲——桑德拉布鲁克，以及那种很常见的 “詹尼弗阿尼斯顿怀孕了”的新闻。实际上，每周都有至少一位名人母亲、 或者准母亲在杂志上笑迎读者。 In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent toadmittingyousupportk