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Jane Brown has been married for 12 years. She has three children, and lives in a suburb outside Columbias Higher. When her youngest child reached school age, Jane decided to go back to work. She thought that she could contribute to household finance, her salary could make a difference between a finance struggle and a secure finance situation for her family. Jane also felt boiled and frustrated in her role as homemaker and wanted to be more involved in life outside her home. Jane was worried about her children suggestion to this new situation. But she arranged them to go to stay nearby after school each afternoon. They seemed to be happy with her arrangement. The problem seemed to be between Jane and her husband Bill. When Jane was at home one day, she was able to clean the house ,go grocery shopping, wash the cloth, take care of the children, and cook two or three meals each day. She was very busy, of course, but she succeed in getting everything done, now the same thing is need to be done, but Jane has only evenings and early mornings to do them. Both Jane and Bill are tired when they arrived home at 6:00 PM. Bill is customed to sitting down and reading a paper or watching TV until dinner is ready. This is exactly what Jane feels like doing, but someone has to fix dinner, and Bill is expected to be Jane. Jane is becoming very angry at Bill’s attitude. She feels that she should shield the household jobs, but Bill feel that everything should be the same as was before Jane went back to work.

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arrangement [ə'reindʒmənt]

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n. 安排,商议,整理,布置,商定,[音]改编,改编曲

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shield ['ʃi:ld]

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n. 盾,防卫物,盾状物
vt. 保护,遮蔽

 
contribute [kən'tribju:t]

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vt. 捐助,投稿
vi. 投稿,贡献,是原因

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secure [si'kjuə]

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adj. 安全的,牢靠的,稳妥的
vt. 固定

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