高等院校英语专业本科听力-第三册3.14

Many people support the idea of day care center of fixing children

In order to allow women to live more independent lives,only a few of people approve women and men sharing the house works¹ between them.

Yet many families are try new arrangements. Sometimes, the father stays home looking after the children and Cooking meals. While the mother earns the family income. Sometimes the mother and father take terms in house keeping and working outside the home. This idea require men to change much more than women. If most of the societies agree with this ideas, boys and girls would have grown up quite differently. Children would study what they enjoy most and did best. We would forget such phases² such as that is no way for the boys to behave or that is pretty good for girl. We would overcome individual persons and there is no longer be a woman’s role

1 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

2 phases   

n.[化学]相( phase的名词复数 )；阶段；[物理学]相位；（月亮、行星的）位相

参考例句：

• The phases of the moon include the new and the full moon. 月相包括新月和满月。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Carbon steels exist in three stable crystalline phases. 碳素钢含有3种稳定的结晶状态。 来自《简明英汉词典》