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No Housework Day is one of those days you see on calendars on the Internet but don’t know where it came from. It is always on April 7th. It is one day of the year when it is OK to do nothing in the house. Everybody has the day off from doing the household chores. It’s OK to let the dishes and washing pile up; it’s no problem to let another layer of dust settle on top of the TV; and it’s absolutely fine to leave the vacuum cleaner in its corner for the day. And as for cooking, make sure you have a home-delivery phone number handy. Or even better, get yourself off to a restaurant. This is also a good day for those who never do anything around the house, who never lift a finger, to appreciate those who do the housework.
在互联网日历中，我们能够看到“无家务日”，但却不知道它的来源。每年的4月7日为“无家务日”。在每年的这一天里，我们可以在家“无所事事”。所有人都可以不做家务。让碗筷堆积如山；电视上再多一层灰也没有问题；角落里的吸尘器可以不用工作了。至于做饭，记得要把送餐电话准备好。下馆子更好。对于那些从不做家务的人来说，我们也可以在这一天感谢他人的辛勤劳动。
What is housework, exactly? If you never do it, you probably never think about this. It is a lot of hard work and someone does it every single day. It starts while the rest of the house is still asleep. Next time you wake up, listen to see if you can hear the washing machine working or smell the coffee machine. It happens while you are still trying to open your eyes at the breakfast table. Then while you are at school or work, the breakfast dishes are magically cleaned, the tables wiped and the dishes all put in their place. You come home from school or work and the bath is clean, again. Your shirts are washed, ironed, and hanging in your closet, again. The toothpaste tube in the bathroom is never empty. Who does all this invisible housework?
到底什么是家务？如果你从不干家务，你也许从来不会思考这一问题。家务指的每天需要做的体力活。天不亮就有人起来干活了。下次醒来后，看看你是否能够听到洗衣机的声音，或是咖啡机的香味。在你睡意惺忪的早餐时间，这些工作就已经开始了。我们上班上学，早餐盘子神奇般地变干净了，桌子擦过了，盘子放回了原位。放学下班回家，浴缸干净如新。衣服洗净熨平，又一次放在了你的壁橱中。从来不会出现浴室没有牙膏的情况。是谁做了这些家务？
译文属可可英语原创，未经允许，不得转载。
