西部落：对于女士而言: 事业与家庭--孰轻孰重?

Well, serve your man according to my next guest, all women should be a wife first, a mother second, and then focus on their career third. She calls Hillary Clinton a lousy wife while saying Laura Bush is a great one. So, what gets? With me now is Dr. Vorenica Corpening. Doctor, good to have you here.

Great to be here.

You know a lot of people are gonna hear that and say, oh, Man! What do you say?

I'd say that you were chosen to be a wife, and so you have to do your job as a wife just as well as you do your job as a physician, a lawyer, a politician. So when you're chosen, your husband expects you to meet the needs of him; you expect him to meet your needs. So therefore, you need to do what you need to do as a wife first and put that at the top of your priority¹ list.

All right, now you said you had, and you were telling me during the break you have? 3 kids, right?

I have 3 sons.

All right, and, and you've been married for almost 20 years?

Yes.

And you put your husband ahead of the kids?

I do, I do things like take him to <the> train station every morning, pick him up at night. I work my schedule around my life as a wife, and then my life as a mother, and my children also understand that there is time where mum and dad are spending time together, and they are aside.

And, your argument is it makes for better parenting that way anyway, when the couple is tight, close, makes for better kids down the road, right?

It does because what has happened is that women have lost their way, and they don't know what it means to be a good wife and how do they learn that. They learn that through how their mother and father interacted² at home. So we have to teach women and men what it means to be a good partner and then marriages would be much more successful.

Um, you said Hillary Clinton was bad at that, Laura Bush is good at it. What did you mean?

Hillary has been trying to be in front of her husband the whole time, and further her own career. When her husband was the most powerful man in the world, she wasn't behind his vision; she was behind her vision and (she) always has; whereas³ Laura Bush although she is a professional and a very intelligent woman, she always follows her husband and is behind his vision.

You, you know there're gonna be women listening to this say, well, you know, we are not slaves! We are not second-class citizens, you, you, you seemed to give that image.

I absolutely, I absolutely, I am not telling people to be a servant, em, you have to look at...

(inaudible) Does your husband like worship the ground you work on? I mean if you're here doing all this for him. If you were my wife, I would say, man, I'm gonna take you out every night. I'm gonna...

You are not, you are not superwoman. But Let's think about women like Nancy Reagan and Coretta Scott King, those are women who supported their, the vision of their husbands so well that even when their husbands were faltering⁴ and even when they were dead. They kept their vision alive.

All right, but what if you have a husband that er has a cheat on you left and right? chasing interns⁵, I mean why be loyal to a guy like that?

Well, it probably started because one thing that Hillary does not give Bills is admiration⁶, and she definitely looks like the type of woman that when he says I want some, she'd say, noway, I don't feel like .....

Hey, hey, hey. All right, so you are saying that you, you women just have to be a little more sycophantic⁷ to their husbands?

Well, there is a time to step back. And When you walk into the house, it's a time to step back and let your husband feel like he is in charge even though you know that there're, the decisions are being made side by side. You let him be forward and so there's peace in the home.

All right, even if it's the man deciding the peace.

The women are deciding the peace too, and the women who decide peace (are) the best.

So you are actually getting your way by making him think he's getting (it)…

You interestingly do get your way cause you are not having a fight about it anymore.

All right, I'd like you to come home and talk to my wife, Doctor. Doctor Veronica Corpening, thank you very very much. (Thank you) In fact there're gonna be a few e-mails on this particular segment⁸.

1 priority   

n.优先处理的事，居先，优先（权）

参考例句：

• The development of the national economy is a top priority.发展国民经济是应予以最优先考虑的事。
• Things should be taken up in order of priority.办事应有个先后次序。

2 interacted   

v.相互作用[影响]，互相配合( interact的过去式和过去分词 )；交流；沟通；合作

参考例句：

• He interacted closely with us so as to finish the difficult task. 他与我们紧密配合以完成这项艰难的任务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• While the other children interacted and played together, Ted ignored them. 当别的孩子相互交流、一起玩耍的时候，泰德对他们不予理睬。 来自辞典例句

3 whereas   

conj.而，却，反之

参考例句：

• They want a house,whereas we would rather live in a flat.他们想要一座房子，而我们宁愿住在一套房间里。
• Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他，而有些人谴责他。

4 faltering   

犹豫的，支吾的，蹒跚的

参考例句：

• The economy shows no signs of faltering. 经济没有衰退的迹象。
• I canfeel my legs faltering. 我感到我的腿在颤抖。

5 interns   

n.住院实习医生( intern的名词复数 )v.拘留，关押( intern的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Our interns also greet our guests when they arrive in our studios. 我们的实习生也会在嘉宾抵达演播室的时候向他们致以问候。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
• The interns work alongside experienced civil engineers and receive training in the different work sectors. 实习生陪同有经验的国内工程师工作，接受不同工作部门的相关培训。 来自超越目标英语 第4册

6 admiration   

n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕

参考例句：

• He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
• We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。

7 sycophantic   

adj.阿谀奉承的

参考例句：

• Qinhui was a notorious sycophantic official in the Song dynasty,and was spurned by later generations.秦桧是宋代著名的佞臣，受尽后人的唾骂。
• We heard the sound of sycophantic laughter.我们听到了谄媚的笑声。

8 segment   

n.切片，部分，段，节

参考例句：

• The company dominates this segment of the market.这家公司控制着这一部分市场。
• Give me a segment of a tangerine to taste.给我一瓣柑橘尝一尝。