When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to (意想不到的是）me that I might become a part of a new international trend.
当我决定辞去我全职工作，让我意想不到的是我可能变成了国际新趋势的一部分
A lateral move（平行调动） that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted(促使）me to abandon my relatively high profile（体面的） career although, in the manner of （以..的方式）a disgraced(蒙羞） government minister, I covered（掩盖） my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family".
一个人事的平行调动伤害了我的自尊、阻碍了我的职业发展，促使我去放弃那份相对体面的职业，尽管用一种政府官员蒙羞的方式，通过宣称“我想花更多的时间陪伴我的家人”掩盖了我的离开.
Curiously（奇怪的是）, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse（老掉牙的借口） into an absolute reality.
奇怪的是，一些两年半和我写完两本小说之后，我在美国人所说的“降低生活节奏”的术语的实验中将我老掉牙的借口变成了一种绝对的真实
I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "have it all", preached(被宣扬） by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the pages of she magazine,（A） into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of(容易满足） everything（B).
我已经从一个LindaKelsey在过去的7年间在她这本杂志中宣扬的“拥有所有”的哲学道理的热情倡导者转变成一个容易因为任何事开心的女人
I have discovered, as（正如）perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up（积累） of stress, （插入语as引导）that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life", and making the alternative move into "downshifting" brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status.
我已经发现，正如在积累了过多压力后辞去编辑职位而被大众所熟知，抛弃内卷人生的教条，变成“减缓生活节奏”的另类行为带来的成就比经济成就和社会名声更深远的价值 我已经意识到，放弃”忙忙碌碌的生活“教条，转而选择”放慢生活节奏“这一非传统做法所带来的回报，远远超过财务上的成功和社会地位，这一点，凯尔茜在因累积的重负而做出引发外界广泛关注之举——辞去《她》杂志编辑一职——之后可能也会领悟。）
Nothing could persuade（劝说） me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed: 12-hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain（压力、无比紧张） of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on "quality time".
没有什么能劝说我回到香kelsey曾经倡导和我曾经享受的生活:一天12小时的工作，倍感压力的截稿时间，办公室政策带来的压力以及作为父母“黄金时间”的局限
In America, the move away from juggling to a simpler, less materialistic lifestyle is a well-established trend. Downshifting — also known in America as "voluntary（自愿） simplicity" — has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed（被称之为） anti-consumerism.
在美国，摆脱忙碌转向一种简约、低物质需求的生活方式已经是显著的趋势，降低生活节奏——也被美国作为一种自愿简化“——讽刺的，甚至孕育了一个反消费主义的崭新区域
There are a number of bestselling（畅销的） downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters（新闻简讯）, such as The Tightwad Gazette（守财奴简报） that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film（保鲜膜） to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid-'90s equivalent（a相等的相同的） of dropping out.
有许多畅销的降低生活节奏的自助书籍，为了那些想要简化他们生活的人；也有像守财奴简报那样的新闻简讯，给成百上千的美国人一些有用的建议，关于循环利用保鲜膜到自己做肥皂；甚至有支持这个观点想实现90年代中期相等的生活
While（尽管） in America the trend started as a reaction(反应） to the economic decline — after the mass redundancies（n裁员；被解雇；过多） caused by downsizing（经济规模缩小） in the late '80s — and is still linked to the politics （政治思想）of thrift（节约）, in Britain, at least（至少） among the middle class downshifters of my acquaintance（相识的人;熟人）, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
尽管在美国这种趋势开始作为一种经济衰退的反应——在80年代末因为经济规模缩小作为大量的裁员的原因——以及仍然被节约的政策思想所联系，在英国，中级阶层至少在我认识的人中，我们对有不同的理由去寻求简化我们的生活。
For the women of my generation who were urged to（被鼓励） keep juggling through the '80s, downshifting in the mid-'90s is not so much（与其说是A） a search for the mythical good life — growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one （A）— as（不如说是B） a personal recognition of your limitations（局限）.（B）
对于我们这个时代80年代被鼓励去奋斗思想的女性，到90年代中旬降低生活节奏与其说是一种为了神话般好的生活——种植你自己的有机蔬菜以及冒着变成一体的风险，不如说是认识到了自身局限
