6. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life", and making the alternative move into "downshifting brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status.

[參考譯文] 或許正像凱爾西在不堪積勞重負(fù)而公開地辭去她在《她》雜志社的編輯 一職之后一樣，我已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)，放棄那種"為生活忙碌"的人生信條并轉(zhuǎn) 而追求比較悠閑的生活帶給你的回報(bào)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)大于經(jīng)濟(jì)成功和社會(huì)地位。

7. While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline-after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late ' 0s-and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.

[參考譯文] 在美國(guó)，這一返樸趨勢(shì)是以經(jīng)濟(jì)衰落的反應(yīng)為開始的--那是在0年 代末期裁員而引起大量的失業(yè)之后一一現(xiàn)在依然與提倡節(jié)儉的政綱相： 關(guān);而在英國(guó)，最起碼在我所熟識(shí)的中產(chǎn)階級(jí)返樸歸隱者中，追求簡(jiǎn)約; 生活的原因就多種多樣了。

8. For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the' 0s, down-shifting in the mid' 90s is not so much a search for the mythical good lift-growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one-as a personal recognition of your limitations.

[參考譯文] 對(duì)于我這一代曾在整個(gè)0年代為生活奔波的女人來說，90年代中期出 現(xiàn)的歸隱恬退與其說是我們尋求一種神話般的美好生活--用有機(jī)肥種植蔬菜，并且自己放棄一切的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)--不如說是我們清醒地認(rèn)識(shí)到自身;能力是有限的這一事實(shí)。

9. If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it' 11 be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman' s notorious bad taste in ties.

[參考譯文] 如果你是你講話對(duì)象中的一員，那么你就身處一種(有利)位置宋了解對(duì)你們來說都很普遍的經(jīng)歷和問題，而且你對(duì)餐廳中難以下咽的食物或老總臭名昭彰的領(lǐng)帶品位進(jìn)行隨意評(píng)判也是合適的。

10. There are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy--far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their handsaone

[參考譯文] 現(xiàn)在已有一些機(jī)器人系統(tǒng)能夠進(jìn)行精確到毫米以下的腦部和骨骼手術(shù)——這要比極具技巧的醫(yī)生單單用手精確得多。