计划说明
考研人数逐年增加，竞争之激烈使得我们不得不加急复习的日程。众所周知，阅读理解占据了考研英语二100分试卷的一半分值，而考研英语阅读文章大多来自英美国家的主流报刊杂志，所以如果能在日常就多多阅读这些文章，对以后读懂文章做对题目来说会大有裨益。但是对大多数备考的同学来说，刚开始投入复习，就去读考试文章难度的新闻报刊，也是不现实、并且不符合循序渐进的学习规律的，所以我们会在每次推送中，给大家给出两篇短文，一篇是初阶水平（大致在初高中水平）；一篇是高阶水平（四六级到考研水平）；同学们可以根据自己当前的情况，选择其中一篇进行学习。
学习步骤如下：
1.不看汉语译文自己看一遍短文做理解
2.看汉语译文比对自己理解的意思与之出入
3.强化记忆重点单词（以记忆其汉语意思为主）
翻译文段
But it’s not just a gender thing. At work, people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income. The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.
On the home front, however, people have no such clarity. Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out. There are a lot of tasks to be done, there are inadequate rewards for most of them. Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they’re teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, they’re your family. You cannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home.
So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
短文翻译
但这并不仅与性别相关。工作中，人们清楚地了解他们的任务：工作，挣钱，完成为了获得收入的各种事务。事情很简单：员工投入数小时的脑力或体力劳动，获得维持生活的收入。
然而，人们对后方的认识不并清晰。(在家)很少能像工作中那样按部门、系统地进行分工。后方任务繁重，并且大多数人也得不到报酬。在家的同事，即你的家人，没有任何报酬，因此需要极力说服他们；而如果是对孩子，还得威胁不让他们玩电子设备。此外，他们是你的家人，你不可能“开除”他们。你根本就没有下班回到家。
因此，人们在家压力更大也不足为奇了。这并非仅因这些任务没完没了，还因你的合作者(家人)难以驱动。
重点单词
be supposed to do sth.
应该做某事
bargain [ˈbɑːɡən]
n.减价品; 便宜货;
v.讨价还价
physical [ˈfɪzɪkl]
adj.身体的; 肉体的;
mental labor
脑力劳动;
life-sustaining
维持生存的
moola
金钱
clarity [ˈklærəti]
n.清晰; 清楚; 明确;
clinically ['klɪnɪkli]
adv.朴素地
methodically [mə'θɒdɪklɪ]
adv.有条不紊; 有系统地
inadequate [ɪnˈædɪkwət]
adj.不充分的; 不足的;
apparently [əˈpærəntli]
adv.显然
infinite [ˈɪnfɪnət]
adj.无限的，无穷尽的
motivate [ˈməʊtɪveɪt]
v.推动…甘愿苦干; 激励;
