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【昨日回顾】

A workforce that that’s built on flexibility and experimentation sounds ideal. People could work a job for as long as they need. They could parcel out their labor into a traditional nine-to-five, or work a few hours, leaving themselves time to do with as they see fit.

足够灵活且经过试验检验的劳动力，听起来是最理想的状态。人们需要工作多久就可以工作多久。他们可以按照传统朝九晚五的方式来工作，或只工作几个小时，剩下的时间就按照他们认为合适的方式来处理。

【今日长难句】

Flexible work could help tackle questions of how best to keep parents of young children, adult children of aging parents, and seniors in the workforce in a sustainable way. But while some American jobs have moved toward a system that allows workers and companies greater latitude, the policies at work in the American economy have remained decidedly rigid.

【结构解析】

Flexible work could help tackle questions of how best to keep parents of young children, adult children of aging parents, and seniors in the workforce in a sustainable way.

1. 首句为“主谓宾”结构，Flexible work/ could help/ tackle questions of how best to keep … in a sustainable way. 其中in a sustainable way 为方式状语，修饰how best to keep ….

2. 首句中含有动词“keep”的多个宾语的平行结构，即：parents of young children、adult children of aging parents和 seniors；in the workforce修饰这三个并列的宾语

But while some American jobs have moved toward a system that allows workers and companies greater latitude, the policies at work in the American economy have remained decidedly rigid.

3. 二句主干为“主系表”结构，the policies at work … have remained decidedly rigid.

4. while some American jobs have moved toward a system that allows workers and companies greater latitude 为让步状语从句，从句主干为some American jobs/ have moved toward/ a system; that 引导定语从句，修饰a system, 定语从句中latitude一词考熟词僻义，考的不是纬度，而是“选择（做什么事或做事方式）的自由”

【重点词汇】

tackle v. 着手处理

senior n. 较年长者; 老资格者

workforce n. 劳动力

sustainable adj. 可持续的

latitude n. 纬度; 选择（做什么事或做事方式）的自由

at work 起作用；现行的

remain v. 保持; 仍然是

decidedly adv. 坚决地; 毫无疑问地

rigid adj. 僵硬的; 死板的

【参考译文】

灵活的工作时间有助于解决如下问题：如何以可持续的方式，最大程度上让需要照顾幼儿的家长、有老人需要照顾的成年子女和年长者都能有工作。但在美国的就业体系已经转型，这个体系使得美国公司和劳动者都可以自由去选择的情况下，美国现行的政策依然十分死板。

【明日预告】

That mismatch is dangerous for workers and their families. In America, crucial benefits, like medical care, retirement savings, unemployment insurance, and disability benefits remain largely tethered to traditional jobs.

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