家长和老师应该使儿童们领会读书的价值和乐趣。

Parents or teachers should bring home to children the value and pleasure of reading.

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当然，霍弗尔兹的数据也显示，孩子们不做家务的原因之一在于他们花在读书、学习和青年社团等“更有价值”活动的时间增加了。

Of course, children aren't doing housework partly because they're spending more time on such worthy pursuits as reading, studying and youth groups, Dr. Hofferth's data show.

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并且上学要花钱，现实一点的家庭定然会把这笔钱保证给儿子读书，因为儿子是更有可估量的利用价值的。

And schooling costs money, which a practical family is surely guarding most carefully for sons, with their more readily measurable worth.

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