wide choice: 大量的选择机会
coeducation: 男女同校 private school:私塾
wage-earner: 赚钱的人 bread-earner:养家糊口者
In your family ,who is the bread-earner?
相对而言,wage 给 labours而 salary 给白领阶层
good money 赚大钱
acquires:获得(easily get)不费吹灰之力
Man acquires the ability to speak. 强调自然获得
obtain 费尽心机
feeling of economic independence:经济独立感
sence of honor/pride/responsibility/master/humor/guilt
superiority complex:优越感 complex:情结 inferior complex:自卑感
textile areas:纺织业地区 如英国的 Manchester
it has long been customary :早就习以为常
maternal society:母系社会
working mother:职业母亲
more than doubled:远远超出了以前的两倍
but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not
unusual factor in a child’s Home life,the number of married women in employment
having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years。
the number of married women……years 是个省略谓语的独立主格句,主句的主语和短语的主语完全不同。
something 后置定语 be of 结构
smething valuable greatly/smething greatly valuable
prevent from