12月09日英语故事分享：英国啃老族20年来最高
[align=center]The meals are hot, the fridge is always fulland the rent is free. So is it any surprise that more twenty- andthirtysomethings in Britainare living at home with their parents than at any time in the past 20 years?[/align][align=center][font=宋体]有热饭热菜，冰箱总有吃不完的食物，房租也是免费的。看到以上这些好处，那么我们对于如今英国有超过[/font]20%-30%[font=宋体]的年轻人选择当“啃老族”也就不足为奇了，这个数据比过去[/font]20[font=宋体]年来任何时期都要高。[/font][/align]
[align=center]The Office for National Statistics saysmany young adults in their mid-20s and early 30s, and especially men, areincreasingly postponing the transition to adulthood.[/align]
[align=center][font=宋体]英国国家统计局表示，在英国国内有越来越多年龄介于[/font]25—30[font=宋体]岁的年轻人（尤其是男性）在推迟自己长大成人的步伐。[/font][/align]
[align=center]One in three "adult-kids" whohave not left the parental nest say they are still living at home because theycannot afford to get a toehold on the property ladder by buying or renting. Butothers, who have been dubbed kippers – kids in parents' pockets – are, say thedemographers, staying through choice.[/align]
[align=center][font=宋体]在这些没有离开父母的“啃老族”中，有三分之一的人表示之所以这样做，是因为无力维持生计和支付房租，实乃无奈之举。不过按照统计学家的说法，另一些“啃老族”是自己心甘情愿选择黏在老妈的围裙旁。[/font][/align]
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