For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the ’80s, downshifting in the mid-’90s is not so much a search for themythical good life — growing your own organic vegetables, and riskingturning into one — as a personal recognition of your limitations.(Text5. 2001)
翻译
对我们这一代在整个80年代都被鼓励过忙碌生活的女性来说,90年代中期的放慢生活节奏与其说是为了寻求神话般的美好生活一一(她们)种植自己的有机蔬菜并可能会变成一个生活简单而悠闲的人一一倒不如说是我们都认识到了自身的局限。