英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0813 - 产假休三年如何？

 Topic1 Personal Files Management FeeNow college graduates are leaving their schools. For those who won't work for the government or SOEs, they have to take care of their own personnel files, or Ren Shi Dang An in Chinese.

According to media reports, every year the talent markets across the country collect billions of yuan as management fee for people's personnel files, however, the accounts have never been publicized. Many people even don't know why we need to keep the file.

Is there a problem?

Topic2 Maternity¹ LeaveRecently, an NPC deputy Wang Youjun suggested that China should prolong maternity leave to 3 years, and social security fund or national fiscal² revenue provides three years of maternity allowance, in order to ease the burden of new moms.

Do Chinese people not enjoy enough maternity leave?

Topic3 Conde Nast Puts Beijing as 6th Worst in FriendlinessRecently, Conde Nast Traveler put together a top ten list of the friendliest cities and unfriendliest cities in the world. The results are taken from a Reader's Choice Survey which polls Americans' opinions. And Beijing has been named one of the "most unfriendly" cities of 2014 because of its terrible pollution, hideous³ traffic and the crowded streets.

Are these claims true?

1 maternity   

n.母性，母道，妇产科病房；adj.孕妇的，母性的

参考例句：

• Women workers are entitled to maternity leave with full pay.女工产假期间工资照发。
• Trainee nurses have to work for some weeks in maternity.受训的护士必须在产科病房工作数周。

2 fiscal   

adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的

参考例句：

• The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
• The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。

3 hideous   

adj.丑陋的，可憎的，可怕的，恐怖的

参考例句：

• The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.整个经历就像一场可怕的噩梦。
• They're not like dogs,they're hideous brutes.它们不像狗，是丑陋的畜牲。