It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness. Instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”
1.Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness,
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2.Instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.
解析:句子中包含instead of .A.., ...B..的句型,該句型重在強調B,所以句子后半部分是閱讀的重點。
3.Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”
解析:句子中包含Even though .A.., ...B..的句型,該句型重在強調B,所以句子后半部分是閱讀的重點(等同于Even if .A.., ...B..的用法)