unit6課文原文資料(存儲(chǔ)版)
【正文】 膝上；（旅程的）一段 v. （波浪）拍打 reproach▲ vt. criticize (sb.) for failing to do sth. 責(zé)備 movers and shakers people who have power and a lot of influence 有權(quán)有勢(shì)的人們 theory n. 理論 tonal a. 音調(diào)的，聲調(diào)的 harmony n. 和諧；協(xié)調(diào)；一致 baseball n. 棒球 by nature 生性 get one39。s desire 得到心中渴望的東西 a piece of cake sth. that is very easy to do 不費(fèi)吹灰之力的事 heroine n. a woman whom people admire for her courage or achievements 女英雄 sophisticated a. 世故的；老練的；復(fù)雜的；尖端的 falter vi. bee weak。s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man39。 helpful or constructive 確信的；有益的，建設(shè)性的 have sth./little/much to do with 與…有關(guān)（幾乎無關(guān)，很有關(guān)系） achieve/have one39。 use up 吃；喝；耗盡；消費(fèi) superwoman n. a woman having more than ordinary human powers and abilities 具有非凡才能的女性，女強(qiáng)人 politician n. 政治家；政客 care for take care of。 we working women are too sophisticated for that. Yet the superwomen I read about are my heroines. When my faith in myself falters, it is they who urge me on, whispering, Go for it, lady! One of these days I plan to phone my former classmate Kate and shout Well done! into the receiver. I hope she won39。t be ready at the butcher shop as promised. The woman ahead of me in the supermarket line will pay for her groceries with a check drawn on a Martian bank, and only the manager (who has just left for lunch) can OK the matter. They also serve who only stand and wait, wrote the poet John Milton, but he forgot to add that they don39。s joke hit home. What an idiot I39。d like to sell me. My friend39。s degree. One day, however, I actually met a superwoman face to face. Just before Christmas last year, my work took me to the office of a woman executive of a national corporation. Like her supersisters, she has a husband, two small children and, according to reports, a spotless apartment. Her life runs as precisely as a Swiss watch. Since my own schedule rarely succeeds, her acplishments fill me with equal amounts of wonder and guilt. On a shelf behind her desk that day were at least a hundred jars of strawberry jam, gaily tied with redchecked ribbons. The executive and her children had made the jam and decorated the jars, which she planned to distribute to her staff and visiting clients. When, I wondered aloud, had she found the time to plete such an impressive holiday project? I should have known better than to ask. The answer had a familiar ring: in her spare time. On the train ride ho
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