A gap year is a period of time when high school graduates can go traveling, do some voluntary work or take up a part-time job before they further their study in universities.

间隔年是指中学毕业生在上大学之前去旅游、做义工或做临时工的一段时间。

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There was a comparable rise in the number of people who would take a full-time job if it were available but instead have settled for part-time work or given up looking altogether.

而那些如有机会愿意从事全职工作，但却已转而满足于兼职或彻底放弃求职的人，其数量也有程度相当于此的上升。

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Without Babcia's childcare, my mother had to give up her full-time job and take part-time work in a school across the road.

没有祖母照看我，母亲不得不放弃全职的工作，在马路对面一家学校里做兼职工作。

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Similarly, in two-adult households, it rarely makes sense for the woman to take up full-time work before the man, or for one to start a part-time job before the other is working part of the reason that almost one in five households has no earner.

ECONOMIST: Welfare to work