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VOA双语新闻 Journalist Gloria Steinem

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As a little girl growing up in a poor Ohio neighborhood in the 1940's, Gloria Steinem dreamed of becoming a movie star or a dancer. In college, she studied journalism1, and when she saw that reporter jobs seemed to go to men, she became a freelance writer. In her thirties, she helped start a social revolution.

格洛丽亚.斯泰娜姆20世纪40年代在俄亥俄州一个贫穷的社区长大,她小的时候曾梦想成为电影明星或是舞蹈家。在大学里她学习新闻专业,当她看到记者这一行业大都雇用男性时,她就成了一名自由撰稿人。她在30多岁的时候帮助发起了一场社会革命。

There was little gender2 equality in the early 1960's, when Steinem wrote the article that brought her national attention. To research " Bunny's Tale" Steinem worked for 3 weeks as a Playboy Bunny - a scantily3 clad waitress in a men's club.

在20世纪60年代初,几乎不存在性别平等,当时斯泰娜姆写了一篇引起全国关注的文章。为了撰写《兔子的故事》,斯泰娜姆做了三个星期的兔女郎,也就是在男性俱乐部里穿着裸露的女招待。

"I learned what it's like to be hung on a meat hook. That's the emotional experience of walking around in a costume that's so tight it would give a man cleavage," she says, recalling the experience. "It makes your thighs4 cold from lack of circulation and meanwhile you're carrying heavy trays, and you're getting paid two pennies, and you have to rent the costume. It's a humiliating experience, but it's a way of making a living."

斯泰娜姆说:“我感觉就象就被挂在卖肉的钩子上被人出售一样,这是一段很难受的经历。穿着裸露的、就连男人穿上都会显出乳房的紧身衣走来走去。由于缺少血液循环,大腿很冷。同时,你还得托着沉重的盘子,你只能赚到两美分,还不得不租服装。这是令人感到屈辱的经历,不过这也是一种谋生的方式。”

Gloria Steinem continued making her living as a journalist, covering political campaigns and peace rallies, and becoming politically active herself. She championed women's causes like legal abortion5 and increased representation in public office, and became one of the leaders of the new feminist6 movement.

格洛丽亚.斯泰纳姆继续以新闻报导为生,她报导政治活动及和平集会,她本人也成为了一名政治活动人士。她带头支持合法堕胎、支持增加在政府部门的女性代表等妇女平等的事业,并成为新女权运动的领袖之一。

Over the past three decades, that movement has made great strides in changing laws and expectations. However, Steinem says, there's still a long way to go to reach full equality between men and women.

在过去的30多年里,这一运动在改变法律和人们的理念方面取得了很大的进步。不过,斯泰纳姆说,要达到男女完全平等还有很长的路要走。

"For instance, we have convinced ourselves that women can do what men can do. But we haven't yet convinced ourselves, and therefore the rest of the country, that men can do what women can do," she says. "Therefore, women still have two jobs. You cook three meals a day, you have several perfect children, you run the house, you dress for success. And that was the source of 'Superwoman,' but of course, it's not possible to do two full-time7 jobs."

“比如说,我们已经确信女性可以做男性所能做的事情。可是在美国的其它地区,我们还不确信男性可以做女性所能做的事情。因此女性还要身兼两职。你一天要做三顿饭,你还有几个完美的孩子,你要管家,还要穿戴打扮,以便在事业上取得成功。‘超级女性’就是这么来的。不过当然,不可能同时做两份全职工作。”

Since the early 1970's, Gloria Steinem's full-time job has been promoting what became known as Women's Liberation. She helped found the flagship publication of the feminist movement, Ms. Magazine, and several women's political organizations, including the National Women's Political Caucus8, the Coalition9 of Labor10 Union Women, and Women Against Pornography. And, she continued to write. In The Revolution From Within, Steinem discussed low self-esteem is a problem for most women, including herself.

自从20世纪70年代初以来,格洛丽亚.斯泰纳姆的全职工作就是推动广为人知的妇女解放运动。她帮助创立了女权运动的旗舰出版物《女士杂志》,并创立了好几个妇女政治组织,其中包括全国妇女政治核心小组、工会妇女联盟和反色情妇女组织。同时她还继续撰写文章,在《内部革命》一文中,斯泰纳姆论述了缺乏自尊是包括她自己在内的大多数女性普遍存在的一个问题。

"I'd been wandering around the country and other countries for 20 years or more seeing women who were smart or courageous11 or wonderful, and who compared themselves to perfection instead of the real, who started their sentences with, 'It's probably only me, but…' And it broke my heart really," she says. "So I started writing for other people, and only later I realized that it was for me too."

“我在美国各地及其它国家游历了20多年,见到很多聪明、勇敢或出色的女性,她们力争完美,而不切实际。她们以这句话开头,‘可能只有我这么想,不过……’这句话令我心碎。所以我开始为别人撰写文章,到了后来我才意识到这也是为了我自己。”

For more than 40 years, Gloria Steinem has worked to help women seize control of their lives - economically, socially, sexually and politically. What she wants, she says, is more than just reform.

40多年来,格洛丽亚.斯泰纳姆一直致力于帮助女性在经济上、 社会上、 在性方面和在政治上掌握自己的生活。她说她想要的不仅仅只是改革。

"This is no simple reform, it really is a revolution. Sex and race, because they are easy visible differences, have been the primarily ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor, on which the system still depends," she says. "We're talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We're talking about humanism."

“这不只是简单的改革,这其实是一场革命。性别和种族革命,因为这两方面很容易看到差别。这两方面是把人类划分为高等和低等群体、把人类组成廉价劳动力的主要方式。而目前的制度就依赖于这种廉价劳动力。我们所提倡的是一个没有廉价劳动力的社会,只有选择和凭自己的能力争取到的角色。我们所说的是人道主义。”

In recognition of her efforts, Gloria Steinem was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. Now in her 70s [born March 25, 1934], Steinem refuses to slow down. As a speaker, writer and leader, she continues to advocate the cause of equal opportunity for women around the world. She says the feminist movement is not about men and women trading places, but rather men and women moving ahead together.

为了表彰她的贡献,格洛丽亚.斯泰纳姆1993年被选入全国女性名人堂。现在她已经70多岁了,仍在积极努力。作为一名讲演者、撰稿人和领袖,她继续推动全世界女性获得平等机会这项事业。她说女权主义运动并不是要男女交换位置而是要男女共同进步。
 
 


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1 journalism kpZzu8     
n.新闻工作,报业
参考例句:
  • He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师,可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
  • He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。
2 gender slSyD     
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。
3 scantily be1ceda9654bd1b9c4ad03eace2aae48     
adv.缺乏地;不充足地;吝啬地;狭窄地
参考例句:
  • The bedroom was scantily furnished. 卧室里几乎没有什么家具。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His room was scantily furnished. 他的房间陈设简陋。 来自互联网
4 thighs e4741ffc827755fcb63c8b296150ab4e     
n.股,大腿( thigh的名词复数 );食用的鸡(等的)腿
参考例句:
  • He's gone to London for skin grafts on his thighs. 他去伦敦做大腿植皮手术了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The water came up to the fisherman's thighs. 水没到了渔夫的大腿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 abortion ZzjzxH     
n.流产,堕胎
参考例句:
  • She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
  • A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
6 feminist mliyh     
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。
7 full-time SsBz42     
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
参考例句:
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
8 caucus Nrozd     
n.秘密会议;干部会议;v.(参加)干部开会议
参考例句:
  • This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
  • It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。
9 coalition pWlyi     
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
参考例句:
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
10 labor P9Tzs     
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
参考例句:
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
11 courageous HzSx7     
adj.勇敢的,有胆量的
参考例句:
  • We all honour courageous people.我们都尊重勇敢的人。
  • He was roused to action by courageous words.豪言壮语促使他奋起行动。
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