向前一步:第197期 让我们开始讨论吧(3)

 The Speaker was born in 1912, eight years before women were given the right to vote, 奥尼尔出生于1912年。8年后，美国女性获得了选举权。

but by the time I met him in the halls of Congress, society had (mostly) evolved. 我在国会大厅见他时，社会已经发生了很大的变化。

It was obvious that a woman could do anything a man could do. 显而易见的是，男人能做的事女人也能做。

My childhood was filled with firsts, 我小时候就听说过很多杰出女性的事例，

Golda Meir in Israel, Geraldine Ferraro on the Mondale ticket, Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme¹ Court, Sally Ride in space. 例如以色列的果尔达·梅厄，蒙代尔的竞选伙伴杰拉尔丁·费拉罗，时任美国最高法院的法官桑德拉·戴·奥康纳，飞上太空的莎莉·赖德。

Given all these strides, I headed into college believing that the feminists³ of the sixties and seventies had done the hard work of achieving equality for my generation. 正是这些进步让我在进入大学时就相信，20世纪六七十年代的妇女运动者已经为我们这代人完成了实现平等最困难的那部分工作。

And yet, if anyone had called me a feminist², I would have quickly corrected that notion. 不过，如果有人叫我女权主义者，我马上就会纠正对方。

This reaction is prevalent even today according to sociologist⁴ Marianne Cooper. 根据社会学家玛丽安娜·库柏的研究，这种反应直到今天也是相当常见的。

In her 2011 article, "The New F-Word," 她在2011年的一篇文章《新F字》里，

Marianne wrote about college English professor Michele Elam, who observed something strange in her Introduction to Feminist Studies course. 提到一位大学英语教授米歇尔·埃兰在女权主义研究课程上发现的一个奇怪现象：

Even though her students were interested enough in gender⁵ equality to take an entire class on the subject, very few "felt comfortable using the word 'feminism.' 即使她的学生们对性别平等问题非常感兴趣，每堂课都不缺席，但极少有人在用“女权主义”这个词时会“觉得自在”，

And even "fewer identified themselves as feminists." 而且“认为自己是女权主义者的人就更少了”。

As Professor Elam noted⁶, it was as if "being called a feminist was to suspect that some foul⁷ epithet⁸ had been hurled⁹ your way." 正如埃兰教授所注意到的：“被称为女权主义者，给人的感觉就像是被别人取了个讽刺的绰号。”

 

1 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

2 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

3 feminists   

n.男女平等主义者，女权扩张论者( feminist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Only 16 percent of young women in a 1990 survey considered themselves feminists. 在1990年的一项调查中，只有16%的年轻女性认为自己是女权主义者。 来自辞典例句
• The organization had many enemies, most notably among feminists. 这个组织有许多敌人，特别是在男女平等主义者中。 来自辞典例句

4 sociologist   

n.研究社会学的人，社会学家

参考例句：

• His mother was a sociologist,researching socialism.他的母亲是个社会学家，研究社会主义。
• Max Weber is a great and outstanding sociologist.马克斯·韦伯是一位伟大的、杰出的社会学家。

5 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

6 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

7 foul   

adj.污秽的；邪恶的；v.弄脏；妨害；犯规；n.犯规

参考例句：

• Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
• What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！

8 epithet   

n.（用于褒贬人物等的）表述形容词，修饰语

参考例句：

• In "Alfred the Great","the Great"is an epithet.“阿尔弗雷德大帝”中的“大帝”是个称号。
• It is an epithet that sums up my feelings.这是一个简洁地表达了我思想感情的形容词。

9 hurled   

v.猛投，用力掷( hurl的过去式和过去分词 )；大声叫骂

参考例句：

• He hurled a brick through the window. 他往窗户里扔了块砖。
• The strong wind hurled down bits of the roof. 大风把屋顶的瓦片刮了下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》