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Excerpt from Emma Watson's speech on gender equality at the United Nations Headquarters
节选自Emma Watson's在联合国总部做的关于男女平等的演讲——
Gender equality is your issue too. Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society, despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother’s. I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it would make them look less of a man—in fact in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20-49 years of age, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality either.We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes, but I can see that they are. And when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
性别平等也与你们(男人)有关。因为到目前为止,我看到我父亲作为家长所发挥的作用被社会所低估,虽然作为孩子我所需要的他的陪伴和我需要母亲的一样多。我看到年轻男性因为害怕自己显得不够“男子汉大丈夫”,从而在承受心理困扰时窘于寻求帮助——事实上在英国自杀已经是20-49岁男性的第一死亡原因,比交通事故、癌症和冠心病造成的死亡都多。我看到男人因为对男性成功的扭曲理解而感到脆弱和不安全。性别不平等对男性也没有好处,我们并不常谈及男人因为性别歧视而“失去自由”,不过我可以看到,事情真是这样,并且当他们自由时,女性的境遇也会自然发生变化。
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two sets of opposing ideas.If we stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by what we are—we can all be freer. And this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom.
如果男性不再为了被认可而变得强势好斗,女性也不会再感到被迫逆来顺受。如果男性不再被迫掌控一切,女性也不会再被迫受掌控。男人和女人都可以敏感;男人和女人都可以强壮……是时候把性别理解为同一光谱,而不是南辕北辙的两派。如果我们不再把对方定义为自己的对立面,而是把对方定义为我们的一员——我们都会更加自由。这就是“他为她”运动所倡导的。这就是自由。
I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned, and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.
我希望男性负起这个责任。这样他们的女儿、姐妹和母亲都能够拥有免于偏见的自由,同时他们的儿子也能被允许脆弱和感性——拥有这些他们曾经摈弃的特质,他们才是更真实和完整的自己。
New words
1.headquarters 英 [hed'kwɔːtəz] 美 ['hɛdkwɔrtɚz]
n. 总部;指挥部;司令部
e.g.The company's headquarters is based in London.
这家公司的总部设在伦敦。
2.suicide 英 ['s(j)uːɪsaɪd] 美 ['suɪsaɪd]
n. 自杀;自杀行为;自杀者 adj. 自杀的 vt. 自杀
e.g.He cheated the law by suicide.
他以自杀逃避法律的制裁。
3.eclipse 英 [ɪ'klɪps] 美 [ɪ'klɪps]
vt. 使黯然失色;形成蚀 n. 日蚀,月蚀;黯然失色
e.g.The name of the eclipsing girl, whatever it was, has not been handed down,but she was envied by allas the first who enjoyed the luxury of a masculine partner that evening.
无论如何,那个独占鳌头的姑娘的名字并没有流传下来;但是她在那天傍晚却因为第一个得到拥有男舞伴的殊荣而受到大家的羡慕。
4.coronary 英 ['kɒr(ə)n(ə)rɪ] 美 ['kɔrənɛri]
adj. 冠的;冠状的;花冠的
e.g.The population at that time was following a pretty unhealthy diet that was not just bad for animals,but also very bad for our coronary arteries.
彼时人们只是盲从非常不健康的饮食习惯,这不仅对动物很糟糕,对于我们的冠状动脉等器官亦如此。
5.distorted 英 [dɪ'stɔːtɪd] 美 [dɪs'tɔrtɪd]
adj. 歪曲的;受到曲解的 v. 扭曲(distort的过去式和过去分词)
e.g.Pain had distorted her face.
痛苦扭曲了她的脸。
6.stereotype 英 ['sterɪə(ʊ)taɪp; 'stɪərɪə(ʊ)-] 美 ['stɛrɪətaɪp]
vt. 使用铅版;套用老套,使一成不变 n. 陈腔滥调,老套;铅版
e.g.One or more entries for each metaclass extension of each stereotype.
每个固定模型的元类扩展有一个或者多个条目。
7.aggressive 英 [ə'gresɪv] 美 [ə'ɡrɛsɪv]
adj. 侵略性的;好斗的;有进取心的;有闯劲的
e.g.The female of the species is very aggressive.
这个物种中雌性是非常好斗的。
8.submissive 英 [səb'mɪsɪv] 美 [səb'mɪsɪv]
adj. 顺从的;服从的;柔顺的
e.g.I feel clear that I am submissive, yet this man left me feeling battered and belittled.
我可以清楚地感觉到我是顺从的,但这个男人让我有受伤和被贬低的感觉。
9.spectrum 英 ['spektrəm] 美 ['spɛktrəm]
n. 光谱;频谱;范围;余象
e.g.Where do you stand on this spectrum?
在这个范围里面,你站在哪边?
Phrases
1. gender equality 男女平等
2. Because to date 因为到目前为止
3. coronary heart disease 冠心病
4. gender stereotypes 性别刻板印象
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