你知道丈夫的含義嗎？——丈夫、丈夫，一丈之內(nèi)乃夫也！你知道英文husband是怎么來(lái)的嗎？——husband=house+band 房屋拴牢！band的含義就是something that constrains or binds morally or legally約束：在道義上或法律上受到限制或約束的事物。比如說(shuō)the bands of marriage and family婚姻和家庭的約束)這當(dāng)然有玩笑的成分，不過(guò)也表明了丈夫和家庭的密切聯(lián)系。我們都知道housewife是“家庭婦女”的意思，那么，你知道“家庭婦男”用英語(yǔ)該怎么說(shuō)嗎？
“家庭婦男”的說(shuō)法很簡(jiǎn)單，就是由house房子和husband丈夫組成的，即house-husband。說(shuō)“家庭婦男”多多少少都帶點(diǎn)貶低色彩，而 “全職爸爸”則是一個(gè)比較中性的說(shuō)法，指沒(méi)有負(fù)擔(dān)家庭經(jīng)濟(jì)責(zé)任的父親，在現(xiàn)實(shí)中，他們生活重心以料理家務(wù)、照顧子女或自我休閑為主。A house-husband is a man who stays at home and doesn't go to work, while his wife goes to work and earns money. Usually a man becomes a house-husband in order to look after children.
Sociologists have found the full-time househusband emerges in three main situations.
Firstly, if the wife is ambitious, well-paid and has good job prospects, while her husband is paid poorly and has no job prospects, it makes economic sense for the female to become the main income earner for the household. 第一：妻子有個(gè)好工作并且掙得比丈夫多。
Secondly, if the wife is tired of household chores and eager to work outside the home, her husband may forfeit his job for her sake. 第二：妻子樂(lè)意主外，而丈夫有成人之美。
Thirdly, if the husband can do his work at home, he may take this option as it allows him more time to take care of the family. 第三：丈夫可以在家辦公，從而有條件多花心思在家里。
Housemaker是house-wife和house-husband的統(tǒng)稱。當(dāng)強(qiáng)調(diào)在家照看孩子職責(zé)的時(shí)候，我們也可以稱house-wife為stay-at-home mom，稱house-husband為stay-at-home dad。還有一種"domestic engineer"的委婉說(shuō)法，不過(guò)這種說(shuō)法多少對(duì)居家者有種諷刺挖苦的味道，所以一定要慎用。與之類似的"housekeeper"這個(gè)詞也要小心使用，因?yàn)樗瑯佑糜谕诳嗑蛹艺摺?/p>
有關(guān)house-husband的新聞：
In a traditional Chinese family, women are expected to do the housekeeping and leave the "other business" to men. However, the emergence of the full-time "househusband" is changing traditional family dynamics.
A survey in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen shows that 22 percent, 73 percent, 34 percent and 32 percent of white-collar male workers, aged between 28 and 33, would be prepared to do the housekeeping if the conditions were right.
有關(guān)house-husband的對(duì)話：
A: Will you go back to work after you have the baby? B: Oh yeah! A: Who'll look after the baby when you're at work then? B: My husband--he's going to quit his job and become a house-husband. I earn more than him, so it makes sense really. And he loves kids, so he'll enjoy it.
Some families with full-time house-husbands prefer others not to know about their arrangement, concerned people would laugh at a husband with "no prospects" or wife who is "too strong", but it's getting more common. 有些男人一開始可能還覺(jué)得當(dāng)“全職爸爸”不好意思，不過(guò)現(xiàn)在這種情況越來(lái)越普遍了。Many of the young men believe a successful man will make a good father. 成功的男人也能做個(gè)成功的父親，你是不是也堅(jiān)信這點(diǎn)呢？
（來(lái)源：新浪外語(yǔ) 英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯）
