每日托福詞匯：奇葩族 kippers
房?jī)r(jià)太高，租金太貴，生活費(fèi)不夠用，這些因素導(dǎo)致越來越多的成年子女不愿意離開父母獨(dú)立生活。他們?cè)诩依锵硎苤鞣N便利，而且有時(shí)還會(huì)讓父母用退休金補(bǔ)貼自己。
The combination of high property prices and laziness has left many parents with the surprise — one that is not always welcome — of finding their thirtysomething children are not in a rush to leave.
高企的房?jī)r(jià)和惰性使得很多父母面臨一個(gè)不太樂觀的境地，家里三十多歲的孩子并不著急出去獨(dú)立生活。
They are “kippers”, an acronym for “kids in parents' pockets eroding retirement savings”.
這些孩子就是“奇葩族”，英文kippers就是kids in parents' pockets eroding retirement savings(在父母兜里蠶食他們退休金的孩子)的縮略形式。
Of those adult children who live at home, 30% don't work at all and 49% are in full-time employment. Of those in work, 58% live at home rent-free and only one-third are charged rent, averaging at 95 pounds per month.
跟父母住在一起的成年子女中，有30%根本不上班，有49%全職上班。全職上班的人當(dāng)中，有58%住在家里享受免租金待遇，只有三分之一會(huì)支付租金，平均每月95英鎊。
房?jī)r(jià)太高，租金太貴，生活費(fèi)不夠用，這些因素導(dǎo)致越來越多的成年子女不愿意離開父母獨(dú)立生活。他們?cè)诩依锵硎苤鞣N便利，而且有時(shí)還會(huì)讓父母用退休金補(bǔ)貼自己。
The combination of high property prices and laziness has left many parents with the surprise — one that is not always welcome — of finding their thirtysomething children are not in a rush to leave.
高企的房?jī)r(jià)和惰性使得很多父母面臨一個(gè)不太樂觀的境地，家里三十多歲的孩子并不著急出去獨(dú)立生活。
They are “kippers”, an acronym for “kids in parents' pockets eroding retirement savings”.
這些孩子就是“奇葩族”，英文kippers就是kids in parents' pockets eroding retirement savings(在父母兜里蠶食他們退休金的孩子)的縮略形式。
Of those adult children who live at home, 30% don't work at all and 49% are in full-time employment. Of those in work, 58% live at home rent-free and only one-third are charged rent, averaging at 95 pounds per month.
跟父母住在一起的成年子女中，有30%根本不上班，有49%全職上班。全職上班的人當(dāng)中，有58%住在家里享受免租金待遇，只有三分之一會(huì)支付租金，平均每月95英鎊。