时代新主妇

Natalie Morales: Barash recently completed a study that defines¹ what she calls the "New Wife". Who is she? A young educated woman in her twenties who decides that while a career is important, marriage and family come first.

Susuan Sharpiro Barash: She wants to stress free marriage, she wants to have time with her children and her husband.

Natalie Morales: So they see women who have tried to have it all as having failed in summer garden, their personal and professional lives?

Susuan Sharpiro Barash: I don't know about fail, but I think very disappointed. And I think that is a myth² of having it all.

Music: Love and marriage, love and marriage,

Natalie Morales: Marlene Mcmahon and Rachel Driling are exactly the kind of women Barash says are examples of the new wife. Marlene put herself through college before starting a career in medical publishing. She met her husband Michael when she was 24, they now have 8-week-old MeKeller.

Music: What a world! What a life, I am in love...

Marlene Mcmahon: Being able to, you know, take her to school, and go to PTA meetings and beat every dance with sidle and make her lunch, I can't even imagine not being able to do that.

Music: Lucky me, can't you see I'm in love...

Natalie Morales: Marlene planned to work part time at some point, but for now she leaves the heavy financial lifting to her husband.

Marlene Mcmahon: We compliment³ each other, so he is more successful having, knowing that I can take care of our children, and I am more successful knowing that I don't necessarily have to worry it as much, because he's gonna make sure our hot water has got turned off.

Natalie Morales: What does this mean then for the trailblazers who did pave⁴ the way for many of us who have careers and have families?

Susuan Sharpiro Barash: The trailblazers were not able to get rid of that second shift that remains⁵ today, studies show us that women who work all day still come home to the second shift for their children.

It's hard to put that together.

Natalie Morales: Rachel D's mom Linda Chambers⁶ was a baby boomer who tried to do it all as an accountant and mother of 2.

Linda Chambers: I really love my job, I love what I do, and I didn't wanna give that up to be a permanent stay-at-home mom, and I had a lot of stress, you know.

Natalie Morales: That stress made daughter Rachel resolve to do things differently.

Music: Baby, love. my baby, Love. I need you, I know I need you...

Natalie Morales: Married at 26, she stays home with son Dashwood and works just 4 times a month as a nurse practitioner⁷.

Rachel: I would much rather sacrifice material items, myself, I would, my husband and Dashwood...and to be old for us to have me stay at home with our son.

Miss Magazine senior editor Michele Kort finds Barash's trend troubling.

Michele Kort: It will be a step backward if women blame this choice on their hardworking mothers, and didn't look at the societal situation that creates that kind of stress

Kid: No, no, no...

Natalie Morales: The harsh⁸ reality is there is no easy answer for joggling career and family, especially for women in demanding professions. Doctor Grace Kang is an unmarried 37-year-old pediatric cardiologist with 14 difficult years of medical training finally behind her.

Grace Kang: I think it would have been very difficult to have a husband and a family and to do well in my training, to succeed, really succeed at it.

Natalie Morales: Doctor Kang has no regrets and feels confident that a marriage and a family are in her future.

Grace Kang: I don't think it's too late,

Natalie Morales: So then we talk now the 21st century wife, what does she represent?

Susuan Sharpiro Barash: She is probably the smartest of all, because she is willing to scrutinize⁹, the recent past, and to take the best from each decade.

1 defines   

规定( define的第三人称单数 )； 使明确； 精确地解释； 画出…的线条

参考例句：

• This name defines us all. 这个名字造就了我们。 来自演讲部分
• The range of incomes over which this happens defines the 'poverty trap'. 发生在这种情况的收入范围，称为“贫困陷阱。”

2 myth   

n.神话，神话故事

参考例句：

• The story has points of resemblance to a Hebrew myth.这个故事与某个希伯来神话有相似之处。
• The story is a pure myth.这故事纯属虚构。

3 compliment   

n.[pl.]问候，致意；n./v. 称赞，恭维

参考例句：

• The manager paid her a compliment on her work.经理赞扬了她的工作。
• Your presence is a great compliment.承蒙光临，不胜荣幸。

4 pave   

vt.给（道路路面）铺上石板或砖

参考例句：

• The town council decided to pave the square before the Hall.市议会决定把市政厅前的广场铺上石板。
• I believe this treaty will pave the way to peace in Europe.我相信这个条约将为欧洲的和平铺平道路。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

6 chambers   

n.房间( chamber的名词复数 )；（议会的）议院；卧室；会议厅

参考例句：

• The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间：Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网

7 practitioner   

n.实践者，从事者；(医生或律师等)开业者

参考例句：

• He is an unqualified practitioner of law.他是个无资格的律师。
• She was a medical practitioner before she entered politics.从政前她是个开业医生。

8 harsh   

adj.严厉（酷）的，刺耳的，刺目的，毛糙的

参考例句：

• The sunlight is very harsh.太阳光很刺眼。
• Although his words are harsh,there is positiveness in them.虽然他的话很苛刻，但有建设性。

9 scrutinize   

n.详细检查，细读

参考例句：

• Her purpose was to scrutinize his features to see if he was an honest man.她的目的是通过仔细观察他的相貌以判断他是否诚实。
• She leaned forward to scrutinize their faces.她探身向前，端详他们的面容。