英语新词:"奈特尔"家庭是什么样的？
时间：2018-11-29 作者：英语课 分类：英文语法词汇
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Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life, or NETTEL, refers to the risingpool of households headed by two high-income-earning, full-time 1-working parents with dependent children.
NETTEL(Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life，无暇享受生活，简称“奈特尔”)指夫妻为高收入全职人员、家中又有孩子需要照顾的家庭。
Here are two parents working full-time earning lots of moneybut struggling to balance the commitments that come with a demanding job and an even moredemanding family life. In many families it's a case of got enough money but hasn’t got enoughtime to enjoy life. These stressed-out Nettel parents are forever scheduling, scheming anddiarising about how to execute the next day's events.
这样的家庭中，父母全职工作，收入也不少，但无法同时兼顾工作职责和家庭生活。很多家庭都是有钱却没时间享受生活。这些压力重重的“奈特尔(NETTEL)”父母永远都在排日程、列计划，记录着要怎样完成第二天的事务。
英语新词:"奈特尔"家庭是什么样的？
And, by some bizarre twist of logic 2, many of these parents seem to revel 3 in the scheduling frenzy 4.In a materialistic 5 go-getter world, a couple's ability to juggle 6 and to control life's commercial andfamilial demands merely confirms their superior "alpha" status.
而且，基于某种奇怪的逻辑，这些父母似乎很享受这种日程堆积的状态。因为在崇尚物质第一的世界里，一对夫妇调节和掌控财务及家庭需求的能力就能够证明他们超级“强者”的地位。
1 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的
- A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
- I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。
2 logic
n.逻辑(学)；逻辑性
- What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
- I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。
3 revel
vi.狂欢作乐，陶醉；n.作乐，狂欢
- She seems to revel in annoying her parents.她似乎以惹父母生气为乐。
- The children revel in country life.孩子们特别喜欢乡村生活。
4 frenzy
n.疯狂，狂热，极度的激动
- He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
- They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。
5 materialistic
a.唯物主义的，物质享乐主义的
- She made him both soft and materialistic. 她把他变成女性化而又实际化。
- Materialistic dialectics is an important part of constituting Marxism. 唯物辩证法是马克思主义的重要组成部分。
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