Sassies treat their girlfriends, boyfriends, mums and, when they don’t qualify for that initial S any more, their husbands and children

sassy一族肯为她们的女友、男友、妈妈，甚至当她们不再适合第一个S(单身)的界定时，也会为她们的丈夫和孩子花钱。

Now there were bright-orange mums for thanksgiving and a huge pink poinsettia at Christmas, white lilies at Easter, and velvety red roses for birthdays. Seasonal flowers in mixed bouquets celebrated the move to our first house.

现在感恩节有鲜亮的菊花，圣诞节有粉色的一品红，复活节有白色的百合，生日时有天鹅绒般红色的玫瑰。一大束应季鲜花祝!福我们搬入了第一个家。

Plenty of kids dragged their famous mums to the New York premiere

许多孩子拖着他们著名的母亲来到纽约的首映式现场。

||1: Three decades on, how has the picture changed?Two things stand out. ||2: First, behaviour has changed drastically since unification: the share of eastern women with young children working full-time fell from over half in 1990 to just under a third in 2018. ||3: More women across Germany are working part-time. ||4: Second, east-west differences still exist. ||5: The share of eastern mums in full-time work is more than double that in the west. ||6: As a result, whereas women in the east earn 7% less than men, the gap in the west is 22%. ||7: The report argues that policy and attitudes together explain these trends.

||1:30年过去了，情况发生了怎样的变化？有两点很突出。||2:首先，自两德统一以来，人们的行为发生了巨大的变化：有年幼子女的东德女性全职工作的比例1990年时为一半以上，而2018年则下降到不足三分之一。||3:德国有越来越多的女性从事兼职工作。||4:东西方差距依然存在。||5:东德全职妈妈的比例是西德的两倍多。||6:结果就是，东德女性的收入比男性少7%，而西德男女收入的差距是22%。||7:该报道认为，造成这些趋势的原因是政策和态度。

||1:When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the east united with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in 1990, the mothers of young children led very different lives.Life expectancy and incomes were much lower in the east, but communism did at least seem to lead to greater gender equality in labour-market outcomes.||2:Encouraged by state policies and party ideology, mothers were almost as likely to work as fathers, and most worked full-time.||3:In the west, where state and church encouraged mums to stay at home, less than half were in paid employment, and most of those worked part-time.

||1:在1990年东部的德意志民主共和国和德意志联邦共和国合并之时，年幼子女的妈妈们过着截然不同的生活，东德的预期寿命和收入较低，不过对于劳动力市场结果来说，共产主义至少维护了在性别平等方面作出了贡献。||2:在国家政策和政党意识形态的鼓励下，妈妈们几乎和爸爸们一样愿意工作，而且大多是全职工作。||3:在西德，政府和教会鼓励妈妈们呆在家里，只有不到一半的妈妈们有带薪工作，而且大多是兼职。

YOUNG mums shopping in the Copley Mall in downtown Boston last month found themselves being questioned about their use of soap by students from Harvard Business School. The students were not doing odd jobs to earn beer money. They were preparing to help a firm in Brazil launch an antibacterial cleanser.

上月，年轻的妈妈们在波士顿市区的科普利商场 (Copley Mall) 购物时，发现有来自哈佛商学院的学生询问她们使用肥皂的情况。这些学生并不在打临时工赚取啤酒钱。他们在帮助一家巴西公司发布一款抗病菌洁面乳做准备工作。

Attitudes, meanwhile, may help explain part of the lasting hours gap between east and west: 30 years after unification, eastern women are still more likely to approve of full-time working mums . This chimes with earlier findings that east Germans are more likely to have an egalitarian view of the roles of the sexes.

与此同时，“态度”可能是解释东西德之间长期存在工作时长差距的部分原因：在统一30年之后，东德女性仍然更倾向于认可全职妈妈。这与早期的发现相一致，即东德人可能更倾向于用平等的眼光看待性别角色。

Outside its doors a team of locals is promoting Huggies to passing mums .

在超市门外,则有一队本地人给那些路过的妈妈们促销哈吉斯尿布。

The 2005 infant feeding survey found that painful feeding and lack of support were the main reasons why mums stopped breastfeeding.

2005年开展的一次婴儿喂养调查显示，痛苦的喂养经历和缺乏帮助是妈妈们停止母乳喂养的主要原因。

Julian Lesser’s language of flowers is a journey through the urban landscape of mums .

JulianLesser的花语是通过这个城市看到菊花景象的旅行。

But now researchers have revealed a ten-point action plan to help young mums out of the doldrums.

不过，研究人员最近公布了十点行动计划，以此帮助年轻妈妈走出忧郁的泥淖。

Baby giant pandas spend a lot of time drinking their mums ’ milk ----up to 14 hours a day.

大熊猫宝宝花了很长时间喝母乳——长达每天14个小时。

Single mums are better at raising their kids than two parents - at least in the bird world.

单身母亲在抚养孩子方面比双亲要好——至少在鸟的世界是这样韵。

But mums also make bright and colorful gardens.

但是还可以把花园布置的色彩鲜明漂亮。

When mums discover a new fun, cheap and healthy thing to do with their babies, the news spreads like wildfire.

当妈妈们发现一个能与自己的婴儿一起完成的新乐趣，它花费不大而且健康的时候，这消息便像野火一样蔓延开去。

Next day, in Whitehorse, I meet up with the rest of the group - three big guys from Manitoba, a couple of mums , some sensible teenagers.

第二天，我在怀特霍斯与团队的其它成员会合：三名从马尼托巴（加拿大中南部）来的大汉，两位母亲和几个很懂事的少年。

The wealthy mums will fly club class and read magazines; their children and nannies will be in economy.

富有的妈妈们会乘头等舱，阅读杂志；她们的小孩和保姆将乘经济舱。

The labour market has segregated into one for mums and one for serious players.

劳动力市场就此一分为二，一半属于妈妈们，一半属于严肃认真的参与者。

LIVING with children can be devastating for the diet of mums and dads, claim researchers.

美国的一些研究人员近日表示，对于那些与孩子共同生活的父母来说，他们自身的饮食习惯很可能会因此而变得一团糟。

MUMS can return to work within a year of giving birth without harming their babies’ development, a landmark US report shows.

美国一份具有里程碑意义的研究报告显示，在孩子出生一年内重返职场并不会影响孩子未来的发展。

If you think about it - some mums think it’s pretty to get their baby’s ears pierced and that can be painful.

你想想，有些妈妈觉得给宝宝扎耳眼（戴耳坠）很好看，但那的确很疼。

In climates where temperatures fall below freezing, plant mums at least 6 weeks before the first frost is expected.

气温降到零度以下后，菊花必须至少在第一次霜降之前的6个星期前种植。

A simple message which mums could follow, which would reduce their risk of still-birth, would be very welcome.

任何妈妈们能够做到的，可以减少死产风险的信息都是会非常受欢迎的。

I was shocked when I went to school and saw normal kids with mums waiting with snacks and cuddles at the school gate.

上学后，当我看到正常的孩子都有妈妈带着便当等候，和妈妈在校门口互相拥抱时，我惊呆了。

In fact, mums and dads with four children of any gender found it harder, the results showed.

事实上研究结果表明，不管是四个女儿还是四个儿子，都会让父母很头疼很辛苦。

Sue Jacob, midwife teacher at the Royal College of Midwives, welcomes Gisele’s aspiration that all mums breastfeed.

苏•雅各布是英国皇家助产士协会的一名助产士老师，她表示欢迎吉赛尔要求所有母亲母乳喂养孩子这一愿望。

AS The Economist went to press on June 30th, a mums ’ army was mobilising to keep schools open during a one-day teachers’ strike.

随着《经济学人》六月三十日付印，一场为期一天的教师罢工中，一队正维持学校开课。

And that’s why it’s so often a woman’s addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums .

所以暴饮暴食常常成为了妈妈们的选择.所有安静的吃东西的妈妈们。

They spotted 15 genes that had been altered to either increase or decrease their activity in mice whose mums drank during pregnancy.

他们发现当鼠妈妈在怀孕期饮酒后，15个基因的活性状态发生了变化，有的活跃度增加有的则减少。

Bonobo males get sex with help from their mums

倭黑猩猩找配偶要老妈帮！

Multiple Use MARC System (缩写:MUMS)

多用途MARC系统