2015年text3 第四段：

①This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance. ②The “mommy wars” of the 1990s are still going on today, prompting arguments about why women still can’t have it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, whose title has become a buzzword in its own right.③ Terms like unplug, offline, life-hack, bandwidth, and capacity are all about setting boundaries between the office and the home.④ But if your work is your “passion,” you’ll be more likely to devote yourself to it, even if that means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bed.

 

句子切分：

第一句：

1. This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated

2. amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance.

翻译解析：工作与生活平衡的争论日益激烈（状语前置），关注个人满足感能够帮助雇员们激发积极性。

 

第二句：

1. The “mommy wars” of the 1990s are still going on today,

2.  prompting arguments about（现在分词短语做句末插入语）

3. why women still can’t have it all and books like Shery Sandberg’s Lean In, （做介词about的宾语从句）

4. （Lean In）whose title has become a buzzword in its own right.（非限定性定语从句）

翻译解析：20世纪90年代的“妈咪战争”今天仍然在继续，使得为什么女性不可生活与工作兼得的争论甚嚣尘上，并且也使Shery Sandberg的书《向前一步》 开始畅销，该书的书名自身也成了流行语。

 

第三句：

Terms like unplug, offline, life-hack, bandwidth, and capacity are all about setting boundaries between the office and the home.

翻译解析：像“放下”‘离线’‘拼生活’“宽带”以及‘负荷’等词都用来描述职场与家庭的界限。

 

第四句：

1. But if your work is your “passion,”

2. you’ll be more likely to devote yourself to it,

3. even if that means going home for dinner

4. and then working long after the kids are in bed.

翻译解析：但是如果你的工作是你的 “激情”，你则更有可能为之全身心地奉献，即使那意味着回家吃过晚饭，孩子们睡觉之后你还要工作到很晚。

 

重点词汇：

motivate：激励，鼓励；相当于inspire；

amid：在什么之间；相当于among；

debate over sth=argument about sth：二者都可以表示就什么进行争论，辩论；

prompt：促成，引起；注意与promotion像区别记忆；

lean in：向前一步；

buzzword：流行语；

in one's own right=by one's own：二者都可以表示靠自身的实力；

bandwidth：宽带；

set boundary between A and B：在A与B之间设置界限；

devote A to B：A投身于B；

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