【绝望的主妇】“为了更高的收入，你都牺牲了什么？”

【句子】He’ll be bringing in more money. But he is gonna miss the birthdays, baseball games, first steps. But that’s a trade-off, right? 【Desperate Housewives S1E15】【发音】[hi:l] [bi:] [brɪŋɪŋ] [ɪn] [mɔ:(r)] [ˈmʌni] [bʌt] [hi:] [ɪz] [ˈgə.nə]/[ˈgɑ:.nə] [mɪs] [ðə] [ˈbɜ:(r)θ.deɪz] [ˈbeɪs.bɔːl]/[ˈbeɪs.bɑ:l] [geɪmz] [fɜ:(r)st] [steps] [bʌt] [ðæts] [ə] [ˈtreɪd.ɒf]/[ ˈtreɪd.ɑ:f] [raɪt]【发音技巧】bringing in连读；first steps不完全失去爆破；but that不完全失去爆破；that’s a连读；trade-off连读；【翻译】他会给家庭带来更多收入，但是他将会错过孩子们的生日，棒球比赛，孩子第一次学会走路等等时刻。但是，有得必有失嘛，对吧？【适用场合】在这里动词短语bring in如何理解呢？bring in money通常理解为：make money or earn money赚钱eg: I have three part-time jobs, which bring in about $14,000 a year.我有做三份兼职，每年能够带来大约1万4千美元的收入。trade-offn. 权衡；让步；妥协；物物交换；a situation in which you accept something bad in order to have something good描述了一种境况：为了要得到一些好的事物，不得不接受一些坏的事物eg: For some car buyers, lack of space is an acceptable trade-off for a sporty design.对于一些买车的人来说，如果想要跑车款的设计，那空间不大这个缺点也是可以接受的。（鱼和熊掌不可兼得） 或者我们说：a situation in which you balance two opposing situations or qualities权衡（两个对立面）eg: There is a trade-off between doing the job accurately and doing it quickly.在工作做得准确无误和工作完成得快之间，总有一个平衡点的。eg: She said that she'd had to make a trade-off between her job and her family.她说她不得不在事业和家庭之间权衡。我们也可以去掉连字符，把这个变成一个动词短语trade sth. off可以理解成：to get rid of something in an exchange 或者 to sacrifice something in an exchange在交换中舍弃某物；或者在交换中牺牲某物；eg: I traded off my old car for a new one.我把我的车以旧换新了。/我卖掉了旧车，换了一辆新的。eg: You may end up trading job security off for more money. 你可能最后就是为了赚更多钱，但失去了工作的稳定性/但不再拥有一份稳定的工作。eg: They were willing to trade off some vacation for the freedom to work flexible hours.他们为了能够拥有弹性工作制，愿意舍弃一些假期。【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】There is a trade-off between the benefits of the drug and the risk of side effects.