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标题: 12月09日英语故事分享:英国啃老族20年来最高 [打印本页]

作者: hellokitty    时间: 2009-12-9 13:24     标题: 12月09日英语故事分享:英国啃老族20年来最高

The meals are hot, the fridge is always fulland the rent is free. So is it any surprise that more twenty- andthirtysomethings in Britainare living at home with their parents than at any time in the past 20 years?


有热饭热菜,冰箱总有吃不完的食物,房租也是免费的。看到以上这些好处,那么我们对于如今英国有超过20%-30%的年轻人选择当“啃老族”也就不足为奇了,这个数据比过去20年来任何时期都要高。


The Office for National Statistics saysmany young adults in their mid-20s and early 30s, and especially men, areincreasingly postponing the transition to adulthood.


英国国家统计局表示,在英国国内有越来越多年龄介于25—30岁的年轻人(尤其是男性)在推迟自己长大成人的步伐。


One in three "adult-kids" whohave not left the parental nest say they are still living at home because theycannot afford to get a toehold on the property ladder by buying or renting. Butothers, who have been dubbed kippers – kids in parents' pockets – are, say thedemographers, staying through choice.


在这些没有离开父母的“啃老族”中,有三分之一的人表示之所以这样做,是因为无力维持生计和支付房租,实乃无奈之举。不过按照统计学家的说法,另一些“啃老族”是自己心甘情愿选择黏在老妈的围裙旁。






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