2016年ESL之日常生活 07 Living on the Fringes of Society

ESL Podcast 1191 – Living on the Fringes of Society 

Carla: Why do those teenagers have to dress like that? Don’t they want to fit in? 

Donald: Maybe they feel marginalized and they’re showing their feelings of alienation¹ through their clothes. 

Carla: That’s just a bunch of psychobabble. Nobody is treating them like second-class citizens. They’re choosing to set themselves apart, to make themselves outcasts. 

Donald: Maybe they don’t feel they have the same access and privileges that other people do because of social class, religious beliefs, or other factors. 

Carla: Nobody is shunning² them. They choose to live on the fringe of society. They need to stop making themselves conspicuous³ and integrate into society. 

Donald: What if they doubt they’d be accepted? 

Carla: That’s ridiculous. 

Donald: Would you want one of them as your neighbor? 

Carla: Well, I…well… 

Donald: I think I’ve proved my point. 

Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 

1 alienation   

n.疏远；离间；异化

参考例句：

• The new policy resulted in the alienation of many voters.新政策导致许多选民疏远了。
• As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated,the alienation index goes up.随着人与人之间几乎一切能想到的接触方式的自动化，感情疏远指数在不断上升。

2 shunning   

v.避开，回避，避免( shun的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• My flight was more a shunning of external and internal dangers. 我的出走是要避开各种外在的和内在的威胁。 来自辞典例句
• That book Yeh-yeh gave me-"On Filial Piety and the Shunning of Lewdness"-was still on the table. 我坐下来，祖父给我的那本《刘芷唐先生教孝戒淫浅训》还在桌子上。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

3 conspicuous   

adj.明眼的，惹人注目的；炫耀的，摆阔气的

参考例句：

• It is conspicuous that smoking is harmful to health.很明显，抽烟对健康有害。
• Its colouring makes it highly conspicuous.它的色彩使它非常惹人注目。