6单元词汇短语(大英4册)
1.the pace of life
2.come up with an answer
3.once upon a time
4.eat into our time
5.the days of the horse-drawn carriage
6.traffic jams
7.time-consuming journeys
8.dream of doing something
9.the transatlantic shopping expedition
10.on the other side of the world
11.washing machine
12.free women from having to toil over the laundry
13.personal grooming
14.feel time-stressed
15.the information explosion
16.a tiny fraction of the information
17. a couple of centuries ago
18.in a single day
19.from every corner of the world
20.the television set
21.scientific journals
22.the publication of a book
23.keep up with
24.the frontiers of scholarship
25.rising prosperity
26.suffer from
27.the confusion of endless choice
28.half the population
29.retired people
30.unemployed people
31.an important person
32.hour-by-hour logs
33.thousands of volunteers
34.professional job
35.executive job
36.the perception of stress
37.care for children
38.do the chores
39.working couples with pre-school children
40.household appliance
41.the distribution of free time
42.take paying jobs
43.working fathers and mothers
44.get it back
45.concierge services
46.online retailers
47.the work-life debate
48.high pressure jobs
49.liberate time
50.the industrial revolution
51.the global village
52.fewer desires
53.set boundary for ourselves