美国国家公共电台 NPR The Far Right's Marine Le Pen Courts France's Female Voters

 

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

And let's shift our attention now to politics in France. The far-right presidential candidate there, Marine¹ Le Pen, is hoping to become the first woman elected to the post. To do this, she has to woo female voters who have long considered her party, the National Front, far too extremist. Joanna Kakissis reports from Paris.

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JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE²: Marie de Silva came to a Marine Le Pen rally in Paris earlier this week because she says she found the male candidates too weak, unrealistic or communist. After hearing Le Pen rail against globalization, the euro and immigration, the 52-year-old building manager says she may have found a woman she can believe in.

MARIE DE SILVA: (Through interpreter) Marine has the strength and charisma³ of a man. She raised her children. She's a super woman, a responsible woman, a strong woman who charges in.

KAKISSIS: The National Front wasn't exactly attractive to women when Le Pen's controversial father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, ran it. He was an aging, macho, former paratrooper who considered women inferior.

JEAN-YVES CAMUS: What he said about women was barely acceptable to those who did not belong to his generation.

KAKISSIS: That's Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on the far right. He spoke⁴ to NPR via Skype.

CAMUS: Marine Le Pen was born in 1968, so, obviously, she's pretty young. She is a modern woman. I mean, she raises her kids independently. She’s divorced, two times. So it probably gives her the possibility of being heard by modern women.

KAKISSIS: Many more men actually support Le Pen than women, but Camus says that Le Pen has narrowed that gap, especially among working-class women. Her campaign has distributed 4 million glossy⁵ flyers that describe her as a mother of three who will defend French women from.

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MARINE LE PEN: (Speaking French).

KAKISSIS: And in campaign commercial, she also claims that as a woman and mother she fears Islamic fundamentalism is restricting women's freedom.

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UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Singing in French).

KAKISSIS: That won over 62-year-old English teacher Roni Radoux, who now campaigns for Le Pen and compares her to Joan of Arc. As those at the rally singing the French national anthem⁶, Radoux insists Le Pen does not just support white Christians⁷.

RONI RADOUX: It's everybody that wants to fit in, not the people that come out here and wreck⁸ everything up and cause insecurity and hate us.

MANON BOUQUIN: (Speaking French).

KAKISSIS: Manon Bouquin, a 24-year-old student, hands out T-shirts for Le Pen with one hand and waves a French flag with the other.

BOUQUIN: (Through interpreter) Marine Le Pen warned years ago that Islamism is segregating⁹ men and women in the Paris suburbs, that there are even cafes where women can't enter.

KAKISSIS: But another woman at the rally, 19-year-old Morgen Fleury, says that Le Pen is trying to scare women into supporting her by demonizing Islam.

MORGEN FLEURY: She's a woman, and she's just so bad for women, and the way she talks about women and Islam, it's terrifying.

KAKISSIS: Maria de Silva, the undecided voter, says Le Pen does not scare her at all and that she seems to get women, like herself, whom the globalized economy has left behind. For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis in Paris.

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1 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 charisma   

n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质，魅力

参考例句：

• He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。
• I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力，能吸引这么多人。

4 spoke   

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

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 glossy   

adj.平滑的；有光泽的

参考例句：

• I like these glossy spots.我喜欢这些闪闪发光的花点。
• She had glossy black hair.她长着乌黑发亮的头发。

6 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。

7 Christians   

n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
• His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。

8 wreck   

n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难

参考例句：

• Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
• No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。

9 segregating   

（使）分开( segregate的现在分词 )； 分离； 隔离； 隔离并区别对待（不同种族、宗教或性别的人）

参考例句：

• The government has just repealed the law segregating the public facilities. 这个政府已经撤销了分离公共设施的法律。
• Siblings and dizygotic twins share only 50% of their segregating genes. 同卵双生双胞胎和双卵双生双胞胎分享仅50%的基因。