#秋秋的听力群#DAY 9
Parental Leave Instead of Maternity Leave.

一句经典： Maternity leave, or any workplace policy based on gender, can, at this moment in history - only ever be a gilded cage. Though it was created to make life easier for women, we now know it creates a perception of women as being inconvenient to the workplace.
最近在看一篇论文：扩大的不平等：母职惩罚的演变。而且在鲁迅所写的娜拉出走之后，如果社会不变革，娜拉的结局无外乎两种：要么饿死，要么回家。 @_秋秋的英语日记

【#伍兹车祸因严重超速#】美国洛杉矶县警方日前表示，美国高尔夫球名将泰格·伍兹2月在洛杉矶郊外发生车祸时，车速超过80英里/小时（约128公里/小时），几乎是该路段限速（45英里/小时）的两倍。这导致他的车在下坡路段失控侧翻，他本人则在车祸中受了重伤，造成腿部骨折。Tiger Woods was travelling more than 40 miles per hour above the speed limit when he lost control of his car, causing the accident that severely injured him in February, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said on Wednesday. Heading down a notoriously dangerous stretch of road in the Rolling Hills Estates community in Los Angeles County, U.S., Woods' car reached speeds of 84 to 87 miles per hour (135-140 kilometers per hour) when he lost control along a curve that has been the site of 14 other accidents, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said at a news conference. The speed limit was 45 mph. For more: https://t.cn/A6ctvnz2

#2021汕头亚青会#【汕北大道（凤东路）外砂河特大桥主桥顺利合拢】The two sections of the Waisha River bridge were joined Saturday, a key step in the progress of the construction of Shanbei Boulevard, the Shantou Daily reported.
The bridge, located in Chenghai District, has a span of more than 1,900 meters. It has six lanes and a speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour with a service life of 100 years. The bridge is expected to be put into operation in October.
Liao Liangxiong, head of the project's technical team, said that the joining of the two sections of the bridge is a key step in its engineering, and to ensure the success of the work, his team has made full preparation in terms of project design, on-site engineering and monitoring on the line type of the bridge and stress level.
(Source: Shantou Daily)