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National Yangming University was recently the site of an international conference on the role of women in science. Arthur Chen, director of Yangming's Center of International Affairs, spoke1 of the pervasive2 influence of stereotypes3 in our lives.
国立阳明大学最近召开一场国际性会议(全球女性科学家会议),探讨女性在科学领域所扮演的角色。 阳明大学国际学术交流中心主任陈宜民,讨论了刻板印象在我们日常生活中所造成的普遍影响。
A conference designed in part to open society's mind about stereotypes about girls and women ought to push open the doors of our minds about other stereotypes we may harbor as well.
一场旨在呼吁社会对女性的刻板印象采取开放心胸的会议,也应该敦促我们对藏在心中的其他刻板印象敞开心门。
When the subject of cruel and inaccurate4 stereotypes here in Taiwan comes to mind, two groups of people come immediately to my mind.
提到在台湾被烙印成残忍和不确实刻板印象的对象时,我马上想到两个族群。
Those groups are Filipino migrant workers and homosexuals. When I raise the topic of Filipino workers with local people, 18 out of 20 times I get almost word for word the same barrage5 of images reeking6 with insensitive generalizations7. Gays and lesbians generally stir more positive stereotypical8 images, but still many regard them with deeply rooted feelings of disapproval9, suspicion and fear.
那两群人分别是菲律宾籍劳工和同性恋者。跟当地居民提起菲律宾劳工这个话题时,20个人中有18位给的评价千篇一律,语气中充满着麻木不仁。男、女同性恋者通常带给人们比较正面的印象,可还是有许多人以根深蒂固的否定、怀疑和恐惧感看待他们。
Whenever we find ourselves stereotyping10 other people, we need to stop and ask what it is we are doing, and why we are doing it. Do we want others to pass judgment11 on us according to our nationality, our gender12, or some other general characteristic? Aren't we individual people, and not clones of a group to which we may belong?
每当发现自己对别人产生刻板印象时,我们必须停下来,问问自己在做什麽,以及这样做的原因。我们希望他人因我们的国籍、性别或其他总体特征,对我们骤下判断吗?难道我们不是独立个体而是所属团体的复制品吗?
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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adj.普遍的;遍布的,(到处)弥漫的;渗透性的 | |
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n.老套,模式化的见解,有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 ) | |
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adj.错误的,不正确的,不准确的 | |
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v.发出浓烈的臭气( reek的现在分词 );散发臭气;发出难闻的气味 (of sth);明显带有(令人不快或生疑的跡象) | |
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一般化( generalization的名词复数 ); 普通化; 归纳; 概论 | |
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8 stereotypical | |
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9 disapproval | |
n.反对,不赞成 | |
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10 stereotyping | |
v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的现在分词 ) | |
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n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见 | |
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