考博英語單選技巧

考博英語長難句解析100句（九）

87. While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline-after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late ' 80s-and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.

[參考譯文] 在美國，這一返樸趨勢是以經(jīng)濟衰落的反應為開始的--那是在80年 代末期裁員而引起大量的失業(yè)之后一一現(xiàn)在依然與提倡節(jié)儉的政綱相: 關;而在英國，最起碼在我所熟識的中產(chǎn)階級返樸歸隱者中，追求簡約; 生活的原因就多種多樣了。

88. For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the' 80s, down-shifting in the mid' 90s is not so much a search for the mythical good lift-growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one-as a personal recognition of your limitations.

[參考譯文] 對于我這一代曾在整個80年代為生活奔波的女人來說，90年代中期出 現(xiàn)的歸隱恬退與其說是我們尋求一種神話般的美好生活--用有機肥種植蔬菜，并且自己放棄一切的風險--不如說是我們清醒地認識到自身;能力是有限的這一事實。