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Changing Weekend Traditions and Household Chores
- The tradition of spending Saturday nights dining out and Sunday nights at home watching football has changed due to televised matches on both days. As a result, restaurant owners are boycotting products advertised during these matches.
- Despite the availability of labor-saving devices, such as washing machines and dishwashers, average homemakers spend the same amount of time on housework as they did fifty years ago. The increase in house size, higher cleanliness standards, and diverse lifestyles contribute to their busy schedules.
- The impact of televised matches on weekend traditions and the ongoing workload of housework for average homemakers.
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(a) In this country, traditionally people spent Saturday nights dining out and Sunday nights at home in front of the TV cheering on their favorite football team. But a few years ago games began appearing on TV on Saturdays as well as on Sundays. (Those games caused a rapid decrease in the number of people who would dine out [15 words]). This is why restaurant owners have decided to boycott products advertised during televised matches. (a) この国では、伝統的に、人々は、土曜日は外食をして、日曜日の夜は自宅のテレビの前で彼らの大好きなフットボール・チームを応援して過ごしてきました。 しかし、数年前、フットボールの試合が、日曜日だけでなく土曜日にもテレビで中継され始めました。 (それらの試合は外で食事をする人々の数の急速な減少を引き起こしました)。 そういうわけで、レストランのオーナーは、テレビ放送された試合の間に広告される製品をボイコットすることに決めました。 (b) Today, an average American home is full of labor-saving devices like washing machines and dishwashers. (People use those labor-saving devices almost every day when they do their housework [13 words]). Thus, average homemakers spend as much time doing housework now as fifty years ago about fifty two hours a week. Although they have the benefit of countless devices, they now have larger houses to clean, higher standards of cleanliness, and more wide-ranging life-styles, all of which keep them busy. (b) 今日、平均的なアメリカの家庭は、洗濯機と食器洗い機のような労力節約の装置でいっぱいです。 (彼らが家事をする時、人々はほぼ毎日それらの労力節約の装置を使います)。 このように、平均的な主婦は、現在、1週につき約52時間、50年前と同じくらい多くの家事をして時間を過ごします。 無数の装置の恩恵はあるのですが、彼らは、現在、もっと広い家、清潔さのより高い基準、より広範囲にわたるライフスタイルを持っています。そして、その全てが、彼らを忙しくさせ続けるのです。