考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2011-Text 4（二）

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　　“吾尝终日不食，终夜不寝，以思，无益，不如学也。”思考固然重要，但是必须与学习相结合。没有开始复习或者进度缓慢的同学，赶紧行动起来吧！文都考研英语老师继续为大家梳理历年考研英语真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2011年考研英语真题阅读Text 4，这篇文章主要探讨了社会对养育子女快乐的过度渲染。
　　In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
　　persistently“持续地”；celebrate“赞美”；procreation“生育”；admit“承认”；regret doing“后悔做过某事”；be equivalent to“等同于，相当于”；support“支持”；kitten-killing“杀害小猫”；fair“公平的”；compare...to...“把...与...相比较”；the childless“没有子女的人”相当于childless folks；rarely“很少地，罕有地”；be provoked to do“受到驱使而做某事”；wonder“怀疑”；if“是否”；be bothered with“为...所烦扰”；obviously“显然”；misery“痛苦”；direct result“直接结果”。
　　Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like U.S. Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic ... No shock there, ... lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
　　parenthood“亲子关系，父母身份”；hugely“非常地”；unrealistic“不切实际的”；shock“震惊”；lean on“依赖”；on one’s own“独立地”；round-the-clock“全天的，不分昼夜的”；a piece of cake“小菜一碟，轻而易举的事情”。
　　... But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
　　stress-free“毫无压力的”；happiness-enhancing“提升幸福感的”；subconscious“潜意识的”；contribute to“促进”；dissatisfaction with“对...不满”；actual experience“真实经历”；in the same way that“以同样的方式，正如”；getting...充当hope的宾语；make us look just a little bit like...“使我们看起来有一点点像...”。
　　以上就是文都考研英语老师为大家梳理的2011年考研英语真题阅读Text 4后三段的要点。阅读是一个相对综合的题型。阅读能力的提升，其实可以促进其他各个题型解题能力的提升。因此，各位同学一定合理支配时间，以阅读为主，全面提升个人英语水平，进而突破考研英语。
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