访谈录 2010-04-24&04-28 解读剩女现象-1

We are going to dive into a controversial topic and a really provocative¹ conversation, and issue, woman’s quests to find Mr. Right. It can be illusive² for anyone, but for black women, specifically for successful black women, the challenge can be that much greater. Consider some numbers here, 42% of black women are unmarried. That’s double the percentage of unmarried white women. And for professional black women, the unmarried number spikes³ to 70%. Vicki Mabrey hosts tonight’s face-off : why can’t a successful black woman find a man?

Welcome to Hotlanta. The capital of beautiful, professional, (That’s right) single black women.

Single women in the ATL.

Waiting for that man.

The numbers are staggering. In the black community nationwide, black women outnumber men by nearly 2 million. 70% of professional black women can’t seem to get a ring on it. Beyonce's lyrics⁴ have become an anthem⁵ for young black women everywhere. Because the problem is real, but who’s to blame, the men or the women? We brought together a sharp, sassy (We will see what happens.) and sophisticated group of single men and women, here at Atlanta’s Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center to battle it out at a nightline (What's up, man.) face-off.

I gotta prepare myself.

Tonight they answer the controversial question, why can’t a successful black woman find a man?

I might get loud, I might get loud.

Sherri Shepherd is co-host of ABC’s The View, and author of Permission Slips. she’s had a hard time finding Mr. Right.

I love to have fun. I got all my own teeth. These are real. Uh, I don’t know if the camera caught that, THESE are real.

But are her standards too high? 

I want a man that's ambitious, and I need a man that has a sense of humor.

Or maybe a bit outrageous⁶.

If you see my wigs⁸ are dirty, can you wash my wig⁷, can you take the cornrows out of my hair?

Some of them are delusional⁹, you know, or some of them are impatient; again, I can hear that tick, tick, tick.

On the other side, Jimi Izrael, NPR contributor, and the author of The Denzel Principle, he says women are looking for an ideal that doesn’t exist.

Every woman thinks that she is, you know, Michelle Obama, and that’s, um, um, no.

Backing up Sherri is Jacque Reid, star of VH1’s hit show, Let’s Talk about Pep.

My hope is that we can move this conversation forward and come up with some solutions, because I love black love.

And so does our final panelist.

Everybody, here in Atlanta. Right in front is a huge group of people we just drove in.

Hill, Hill...

Hill Harper is star of CSI: New York, (Angel.) and author of The Conversation.

E-mail it to each other.

The problem he says is that 95% of black women are trying to date the top 5% of black men. His advice: date a man for his potential.

Are you guys ready for a good discussion, a lively discussion?

The ladies of Atlanta turned out in droves, hoping to find solutions.

See you inside.

It cannot be this many black women that want to know how come they can’t find a man. I don’t have all the answers.

Wow. You look at all these, look at these cars, this is crazy. This is, this is really nice.

Did you see the way they like to look at me, that they look at me like you’d better say the truth, sister.

Knives and, and rocks you know, rolling pins are going to come flying out.

Steve Harvey!!

I am an expert on the mindset of the male species.

Steve Harvey hopes there can be a meeting of the minds, he joins me tonight as co-host. Steve is a relationship expert and author of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.

I understand manhood inside and out.

But do the ladies?

Black men and black women need actually discuss this, you know, and get passed all the anger, that exists between a lot of us...

Girl, you don’t want to pop nobody in the mouth.

No, well, no. not yet, we will see what happens. Not yet.

Moments before the debate, Sherri confronts her old friend Hill.

You are still emotionally unavailable, Hill.

That’s not true, you know, you never gave me a chance. I asked her out on a date.

No, you didn't. I remember…

That's why there are a lot of single sisters out there.

I remember that was his goofy smile. He was so cute.

goofy, see? goofy, (more on that later)

with almost a thousand people settled in their seats. (Good luck to all of you.)

Just have to say a little prayer to Jesus!

It was time to get started, but will the love last?

1 provocative   

adj.挑衅的，煽动的，刺激的，挑逗的

参考例句：

• She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
• His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。

2 illusive   

adj.迷惑人的，错觉的

参考例句：

• I don't wanna hear too much illusive words.我不想听太多虚假的承诺。
• We refuse to partake in the production of illusive advertisements.本公司拒绝承做虚假广告。

3 spikes   

n.穗( spike的名词复数 )；跑鞋；（防滑）鞋钉；尖状物v.加烈酒于( spike的第三人称单数 )；偷偷地给某人的饮料加入（更多）酒精（ 或药物）；把尖状物钉入；打乱某人的计划

参考例句：

• a row of iron spikes on a wall 墙头的一排尖铁
• There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping. 监狱墙头装有一排尖钉，以防犯人逃跑。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 lyrics   

n.歌词

参考例句：

• music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
• The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。

5 anthem   

n.圣歌，赞美诗，颂歌

参考例句：

• All those present were standing solemnly when the national anthem was played.奏国歌时全场肃立。
• As he stood on the winner's rostrum,he sang the words of the national anthem.他站在冠军领奖台上，唱起了国歌。

6 outrageous   

adj.无理的，令人不能容忍的

参考例句：

• Her outrageous behaviour at the party offended everyone.她在聚会上的无礼行为触怒了每一个人。
• Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous.本地电话资费贵得出奇。

7 wig   

n.假发

参考例句：

• The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
• He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。

8 wigs   

n.假发，法官帽( wig的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
• Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克，因为我们需要更多的假发，而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白

9 delusional   

妄想的

参考例句：

• You became delusional and attacked several people trying to escape. 你产生了错觉并攻击了许多人还试图逃走。 来自电影对白
• He is incoherent, delusional, suffering auditory hallucinations. 他出现无逻辑的，妄想的，幻听的症状。 来自电影对白