Unit2商务英语综合教程.pptVIP

1. In the space of six months I have ended a 14-year relationship and found out that I am losing my well-paid job of more than 10 years, the twin poles of my adult life revealed to be as shaky as a couple of gnawed breadsticks. 在6个月的时间里，我终结了一段持续了14年的婚姻，然后发现我失去了干了10多年的待遇优厚的工作，我成年生活的两大支柱就像是被啃过的面包棍那样摇摇欲坠。 2. As China and its people become wealthier and more educated, there is a need to shift away from labor-intensive, manufacturing-led growth and move toward an economic model that both boosts levels of personal income and improves work-life balance — notions at the heart of the “just jobs” agenda. 随着更多中国人变得更加富有、接受过更多的教育，经济体制改革的需求开始显现出来。劳动密集型、生产导向性的发展模式要逐渐向一种“公正劳动”的目标发展，而实现该目标的核心是推动个人收入增长和提高生活质量。 3. Ambition has proved hard to combine with the mundane requirements of secure nurturing. The cost is obvious; they dont get the power or conventional measures of professional success. Its not letting the sisterhood down but holding on to values of relationships and wellbeing. Were delighted to see others forging ahead and crashing through the prejudices, but we shiver at the price it might exact in our own lives. 事实证明，雄心壮志与正常抚育子女，两者不可兼得。牺牲是显而易见的，这类母亲丧失了获得职场成功的权利或无法使用获得成功的常规手段。这不但没有使女性气馁沮丧，反而使她们更珍视人际关系与家庭和睦。我们欣喜地看到其他女性披荆斩棘、冲破偏见、勇往直前，但落到我们自己身上，便不禁在付出的巨大代价面前瑟瑟发抖。 4. Although women live longer, they experience longer periods of ill-health than men before they die because they lose bone and muscle strength more easily than men. 虽然女性可以活得更久，但由于她们的骨骼和肌肉比男性更易衰老，因此，与男性相比，女性在辞世之前经受了更漫长的疾病缠身的岁月。 5. 寿命延长的趋势主要归功于癌症、心脏病和中风诊断和治疗水平的提高。 The upward trend in life expectancy is largely down to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, cardiac disorders and strokes。 6. 不可否认生活充满了压力。但作为压力管理的重要组成部分，我们应该了解压力的类型和来源——压力大还是小、是短期还是长期的、来自内部还是外部？那么什么使你不堪重负呢? Its undeniable that life is full of stress. Understanding the types and sources of stress — big and small, short-term and long-term, internal and external — is an important part of stress management. So what stresses you out? 7. 专家将日本非同寻常