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When I read last week that Angela Ahrendts was getting up to $68m as a welco
When I read last week that Angela Ahrendts was getting up to $68m as a welco
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2023-08-10
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When I read last week that Angela Ahrendts was getting up to $68m as a welcome gift for joining Apple, my mind skipped at once to her husband. This latest addition to her vast stash of money must catapult her spouse Gregg to the very top of the global my-wife-earns-more-than-me league table.
It is quite an achievement. I have no idea if the two of them like each other, but they have stuck it out for a long time. They met at school and he
chucked
his job to follow her to the UK when she became head of Burberry; he seems to have spent the last eight years mainly looking after their three children, revamping their home and putting supper on the table for her when she finally staggered in on her five-inch heels. I suspect the real genius of Ms Ahrendts lies less in the way she persuaded people to buy £ 22,000 raincoats with peacock feather trims than in persuading Gregg to marry her—and to stick with her ever since.
It is no longer particularly rare for women to be the main breadwinner—in the US a quarter of wives now earn more than their husbands—but what is rarer is for such a relationship to work. A book published last week by the journalist Farnoosh Torabi draws together data showing just how hard it is: high-earning women have difficulty finding a husband, and when they do, he is five times as likely to be unfaithful as other husbands. The woman will probably do more than her share of chores; though in the unusual event that he starts ironing and cooking, he is likely to end up feeling so unmanly. Either way, divorce beckons.
If I think of my many female friends who have out-earned their husbands, a suspiciously large number are divorced. One friend complained that she no longer knew what her husband was for as he neither made much money nor showed any desire to help out at home. Hardly surprisingly, his version of events was different: as she insisted on dominating both at work and at home, he’ d been left un-manned and without a role.
I know of only two sets of good friends where the woman earns more and where the marriage seems solid. In one there are no children, so the two spend their spare time being nice to each other. In the second, the man is so good at child-rearing and cooking while the woman is so hopeless around the house, so everyone seems happy.
The majority of colleagues, even very young ones, still seem to be in relationships where the man makes more. One fiercely clever young male colleague says his equally clever feminist girlfriend has told him she could never marry a man who earned less as she didn ’t fancy a life spent propping up his ego. [br] The word "chucked"(Line 2, Para. 2)can be replaced by______.
选项
A、gave up
B、changed
C、dreamed of
D、was fed up with
答案
A
解析
语义题。chucked所在句子为He chucked to follow her to the UK when shebecame head of Burberry。结合下文he seems to have spent the last eight years mainlylooking after their three children,revamping their home…可知,当她成为博柏利的首席执行官时.他应该是放弃了自己的工作跟随她来到了英国。A项“放弃”符合原文。
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