Jessie老师英语美文朗读，一遍慢速，适合模仿，一遍快速，适合练语速和听力！纯正美音，适合模仿学习。
The Generation Gap
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own life-styles. In more traditional societies, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and often to continue the family occupation. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family home at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose occupations different from those of their parents.
In our upwardly mobile society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did: to find better jobs, to make more money, and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, however, the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them. Often, they discover that they have little in common with each other.
Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, elderly people are valued for their wisdom, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight. The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.
代沟
造成代沟的一个重要原因就是年轻人有选择他们自己生活方式的机会。在更为传统的社会里，当孩子们长大的时候，他们被要求和他们的父母生活在同一个地方，同他们父母认识并同意的人结婚，通常也会继续他们的家庭职业。而在我们的社会中，年轻人为了求学通常走得很远，很早就走出了家门，并和他们父母从未见过的人结婚并生活在一起，以及选择和他们父母不同的职业。
在我们这个不断进步的社会里，父母经常期望他们的孩子们超过他们：找到更好的工作，赚更多的钱，做所有他们无法做的事情。然而，父母对他们孩子的期望经常成为他们之间分歧的另一个原因。他们会经常发现彼此的共同点非常少。
最后，社会变化的速度是造成代沟的另一个原因。在传统文化中，长者以他们的智慧而受到尊重，但在我们的社会当中，毕生的知识或许一夜之间就会过时。年轻一代和年长一代好像生活在两个非常不同的世界当中，被不同的技能和才干分开。
联系客服
