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Mothers who work outside the home are constantly reminded of these challenges. 在外工作的女性总是不得不面对这些挑战。 Tina Fey noted that when she was promoting the movie Date Night with Steve Carell, a father of two and star of hi

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One day, Larry gathered everyone together for a talk. 有一天,卡纳里克召集了所有人, He explained that since he was running the office, employees came to him when they wanted to quit. 跟大家解释说因为他是办事处负责人,所

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Susan Wojcicki, who blazed a trail by having four children while being one of Google's earliest and most valuable employees, 苏珊沃西基有4个孩子,她是谷歌资历最老、最重要的员工之一。 brought her children to the office when

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I started arriving at work around 9:00 a.m. and leaving at 5:30 p.m. 从此,我开始早上9点到公司,下午5点30分离开公司。 This schedule allowed me to nurse my son before I left and get home in time to nurse again before putting him

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Sociologists call this relatively new phenomenon intensive mothering, 社会学家称这种新现象为强度母职, and it has culturally elevated the importance of women spending large amounts of time with their children. 这种现象从文化上强

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They tracked more than one thousand children over the course of fifteen years, 之后对1 000多名儿童进行了为期15年的跟踪研究, repeatedly assessing the children's cognitive skills, language abilities, and social behaviors. 反复地评

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Children absolutely need parental involvement, love, care, time, and attention. 孩子的成长需要父母的参与、关爱、照料、陪伴以及注意力的倾注, But parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their childre

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To this day, I count the hours away from my kids and feel sad when I miss a dinner or a night with them. 直到今天,我还是会计较有多长时间没陪孩子们,一旦错过和他们吃晚餐或是没能在晚上陪伴他们,我都会感到

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Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, 宇宙一度又烫又稠密 Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... 140亿年前终于爆了炸 等着瞧... The Earth began to cool, 地球开始降温 The autotrophs began to dr

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