就在公众毫无察觉的情况下，他们取得了惊人的进步：1990年，全世界25%的家庭使用加碘盐。
Largely out of the public eye, they made terrific progress: 25 percent of the world's households consumed iodized salt in 1990.
“家庭主妇”听起来太容易让人想到20世纪50年代蜂腰美女的形象，对外为国内技术的最新进步而激动，对内却吃着镇静药来缓解雄心受挫的痛苦。
"Housewife" recalls too strongly the wasp-waisted 1950s figure outwardly thrilling to the latest advances in domestic technology while necking tranquillisers to dull the pain of frustrated ambition.
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