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1.经济原则
1)钱
女人就业:
Women find they must work to earn enough money to provide for their family.
Once they get married, the majority of women continue working since the financial pressures of setting up a house and establishing a reasonable standard of living often require two incomes.
Those professional childcare facilities come at a cost and often require two salaries coming into a family to be afforded.
Indeed it could be argued that by giving mothers the opportunity to work and earn extra money children can be better provided for than previously1. There is more money for luxuries and holidays and a more secure family life is possible.
艺术:
The arts can be an important attraction for tourists, bringing considerable revenue into the country.
Government subsidy2 of the arts is unnecessary as if art is good enough, then people will pay for it. If art is not good enough to be popular, then government should not reward it for its failure.
Art is not a commodity.
死刑:
Prisons in many countries are over-crowded and under-funded, and this problem is made worse by life sentences or delayed death sentences for murderers.
全球化:
Globalisation has increased world prosperity.
血腥运动(Blood sports):
Many rural communities would be devastated4 by a ban on hunting.
英语国际语言:
If everyone spoke5 the same language it would be much easier for people to move and work in different countries or to conduct trade with each other.
穿校服:
Parents often find some uniform items, e.g. jackets, very expensive compared to the rest of their child’s wardrobe, and complain they can never be worn outside the school environment.
控制人口:
They identify population control as a means to raising living standards.
If education does not succeed within a time scale, it may be necessary to consider other measures, such as tax incentives6 or child-benefit payments for small families only.
童工:
However, in many countries children work because their families need the additional income, no matter how small.
It is an unfortunate fact that many employers prefer to use the services of children simply to save money by paying them less than adults and it is this type of exploitation that should be discouraged.
教育还是治疗:
There is also an economic argument for doing so. Statistics demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of treating a condition in the early stages, rather than delaying until more expensive and prolonged treatment is necessary.
旅游:
Tourism is the largest industry in the world. It surpasses trade in oil, steel, and armaments in total dollar value and in employment created.
Often large sums of money are needed to attract tourists, so significant capital investment may be wasted.
太空:
Space exploration is a waste of resources.
Our dreams of exploring space are a luxury we cannot afford.
禁烟:
A further point is that governments throughout the world make huge profits from levying7 taxes on cigarettes. This provides funds which are used for building schools, hospitals and other public amenities8.
A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of pounds because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related problems.
2)就业:
女人就业:
核能:
The nuclear industry is a major employer.
父母共同照顾孩子:
The economic and employment situation in many countries means that jobs are getting more, not less, stressful, requiring long hours and perhaps long journeys to work as well. Therefore it may remain for many a desirable ideal rather than an achievable reality.
旅游:
Tourism increases employment opportunities. Additional jobs, ranging from low-wage, entry level to high-paying professional positions in management and technical fields, generate income and raise standards of living. As tourism increases in importance, tourism-related employment needs will also increase.
Many hotels are part of large international chains, choosing to exploit local labour purely10 because it is cheap.
禁烟:
The tobacco industry also employs tens of thousands of people throughout the world.
3)时间:
电视:
Nowadays many people spend the biggest part of their free time watching television.
兼职工作:
After-school jobs are bad for teenagers because they take time away from studying.
运动:
Sport is a waste of school time and resources.
2.生理原则:
体育课:
Encouraging physical activity in the young through compulsory11 PE fights child obesity12 and contributes to forming lifelong habits of exercise.
体罚:
禁烟:
There is little doubt that smoking tobacco is extremely harmful to the smoker's health.
配枪:
Routinely arming police officers allows them to defend themselves.
3.心理原则
电视:
Depression is a well-known psychological problem of modern society. The popularity of TV watching is among the reasons of this phenomenon. Violence, aggression16, crimes and wars are broadcast through the daily news as well as in movies, showing dark pictures that encourage psychological tension, pessimism17 and negative emotions.
While TV and movies shouldn’t be a way to hide from life, sometimes it can help us to cope.
压力:
Some students have mental breakdowns18 and, in extreme cases, attempt suicide because they cannot handle the pressure.
体罚:
They learn that force is an acceptable factor in human interaction; they feel humiliated19 and lose self-respect.
A physical punishment is likely to provoke resentment20 and further misbehavior.
课外活动:
Iit is also important to remember that children need to relax as well as work. If everything they do must have educational or academic relevance22, then they will soon get tired of studying altogether, which is the last thing parents would want.
抽烟:
First, smoking undoubtedly23 helps many people to relax.
Indeed the more of a 'forbidden fruit' cigarettes become, the more attractive they will be to adolescents.( 逆反心理)
媒体:
Excessive * and violence in the media can lead to similar behaviour in viewers (studies in the USA have shown this).
Psychologists claim that television does not have a simple, direct stimulus-response effect on its audiences. (模仿心理)
配枪:
People may feel safer when they see armed police, especially if they perceive them as a response to a heightened risk.
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n.补助金,津贴 | |
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3 imprison | |
vt.监禁,关押,限制,束缚 | |
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4 devastated | |
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的 | |
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5 spoke | |
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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激励某人做某事的事物( incentive的名词复数 ); 刺激; 诱因; 动机 | |
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7 levying | |
征(兵)( levy的现在分词 ); 索取; 发动(战争); 征税 | |
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8 amenities | |
n.令人愉快的事物;礼仪;礼节;便利设施;礼仪( amenity的名词复数 );便利设施;(环境等的)舒适;(性情等的)愉快 | |
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9 sector | |
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形 | |
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10 purely | |
adv.纯粹地,完全地 | |
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11 compulsory | |
n.强制的,必修的;规定的,义务的 | |
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12 obesity | |
n.肥胖,肥大 | |
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13 inflicted | |
把…强加给,使承受,遭受( inflict的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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14 horrifying | |
a.令人震惊的,使人毛骨悚然的 | |
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15 bruises | |
n.瘀伤,伤痕,擦伤( bruise的名词复数 ) | |
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16 aggression | |
n.进攻,侵略,侵犯,侵害 | |
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17 pessimism | |
n.悲观者,悲观主义者,厌世者 | |
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18 breakdowns | |
n.分解( breakdown的名词复数 );衰竭;(车辆或机器的)损坏;统计分析 | |
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19 humiliated | |
感到羞愧的 | |
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20 resentment | |
n.怨愤,忿恨 | |
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21 immature | |
adj.未成熟的,发育未全的,未充分发展的 | |
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22 relevance | |
n.中肯,适当,关联,相关性 | |
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23 undoubtedly | |
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24 deterrent | |
n.阻碍物,制止物;adj.威慑的,遏制的 | |
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