Why should you give up our life here and go off to work for her on the strength of a promise given in a letter?

为什么你要放弃这里的生活，为着一封信里几句许诺的话就去为她工作？

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By the 1970s their daughters, having watched their mothers go off to work, took it for granted that they would do the same.

到70年代，她们的女儿，自小看着她们的母亲上班，视工作为理所当然。

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He could not get time off work to go on holiday.

他难以从工作中抽出时间去休假。

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"You see families function in a normal way, where the parents go off to work, the kids go off to school, " she said.

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" As he wound down, he noted that many members of his graduating class would go off to work for "banks, banking markets, market houses and stocking marts.

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One mother said it was "not fair that only well off people are able to choose how long they can spend off work while poorer people have to go back to work".

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