【英语阅读】纽约时报 | 你妈注定让你抓狂

Your Mom Is Destined to Annoy You
你妈注定让你抓狂

• Destined adj.注定的;命定的;去往…的 v.注定
• Annoy vt.骚扰;惹恼;打搅 n.烦恼

I have a 48-hour serenity limit when I’m with my parents. After two days, it’s like an alarm sounds inside me and sends me right back to 1999. I’m a petulant teenager again with a bad attitude, and everything my mother says, no matter how innocuous, inspires the response, “Ugh, Mom, stop nagging me!”
和父母在一起时，我只有48小时的心态平和期。但凡过了两天，我身体里就会像响起警报一样，让我重返1999年。我又会变成一个不耐烦的暴躁少年，妈妈说的每一句话，无论多么无害，都会引来我这样的反应：“唉，妈，别再唠叨我了！”

• serenity n.平静,宁静;晴朗,风和日丽
• petulant adj.暴躁的;任性的;难以取悦的
• inspires 激励 赋予灵感

This unstoppable regression, which has been going on since I left for college, felt worse once I became a parent myself. I am an extremely grown woman now, I thought. I am beyond this. But, like clockwork, by the third day of exposure to my mom and dad, I’d be back in the ’90s, scowling and blasting the Breeders in a borrowed Honda.
这种无法遏制的退化行为，从我上大学开始就一直在发生，当我自己成为家长后则变得更加严重。我以为我现在是个非常成熟的女性。*我已经过了那个阶段了。*但就像上了发条的钟一样，一到和父母接触的第三天，我又会置身90年代那辆借来的本田车里，皱着眉头高声播放着饲养员乐队（The Breeders）的音乐。

• unstoppable adj.无法阻挡的,无法停止的
• regression n.回归;退化;逆行;复原
• clockwork n.发条装置;钟表装置 adj.装有发条的;重复的;平稳的,有规律的
• exposure n.暴露;曝光;揭露;陈列
• scowling adj.愁眉不展的;闷闷不乐的 v.皱眉
• blasting n.爆炸;破坏;由爆破产生的碎石块;枯萎 v.爆破
• borrowed adj.借来的;虚构的 v.借;模仿

I am far from alone in this. Psychologists even have a term to describe the way we fall back into predictable, maddening behavior patterns when we’re with our family of origin. It’s called family systems theory — the notion that families have an e