PBS高端访谈:解放广场示威者抗议性侵犯

 　　HARI SREENIVASAN: Now to Egypt.

　　Among the demonstrators who jam Tahrir Square every day are hundreds of women. They face a very disturbing threat from gangs of men who sexually assault female protesters.

　　Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports from Cairo.

　　And a warning: You may find some of the details and the images in her story distressing¹.

　　LINDSEY HILSUM: Such sweet boys full of energy and fun. They have just been chasing a young woman up the street. The interviewer asks them why.

　　"If a lady is respectable, no one will harass² her," says a kid in red. The others pile in. "Why do they wear short skirts or tight trousers?"

　　"Some young women, when we flirt³ with them, they smile."

　　That's how it starts. This is how it ends. A mob attacks a young woman on the corner of Tahrir Square. We have disguised her identity.

　　This is one of more than a hundred assaults in Tahrir Square during last week's demonstrations⁵. This is the very place. Women still come to the square, but it's dangerous.

　　This corner of Tahrir Square has become notorious for attacks on women. I can only come here tonight because it's almost empty because of Ramadan and people are praying. And I have got a whistle to protect me and an alarm and a whole crew of people around me. That's not the case for many women who come here.

　　And the most horrific thing I have heard is that these attacks are planned, and, sometimes, women think that the men coming for them are trying to save them from being assaulted, but in fact they take them away and attack them again.

　　A long darning needle. Janet Abdel Aleem and her group of activists⁶ distribute the needles to women for self-defense. She and her colleague Nada were assaulted in Tahrir Square last November.

　　JANET ABDEL ALEEM, Fouada Watch (through translator): They were putting their hands into my pants and into Nada's pants and inside my blouse, touching⁷ me everywhere. There were about 15 to 20 people who said they were trying to protect and save us, but they suddenly started to attack us.

　　LINDSEY HILSUM: Today, the Muslim Brotherhood⁸ are on the streets. The women tell me it's the secularists in Tahrir Square, not religious men, who do it.

　　WOMAN: No, that's in Tahrir Square, not here; 170 women get raped⁹ in Tahrir Square, because I don't know which kind of people is going to Tahrir Square. Maybe it's the people, they freed them when they open prisons.

　　LINDSEY HILSUM: But both political factions¹⁰ have tried to intimidate¹¹ women off the streets at different times. And the Muslim Brotherhood blocked a law on violence against women.

　　Law and order collapsed¹² under their rule, so voluntary groups had to step in.

　　ZEINAB SABAT, Tahrir bodyguard¹³: We're doing the job of the police. We're doing the job of people who are in power who should be responsible for this.

　　LINDSEY HILSUM: Zeinab is planning to join her male colleagues intervening to save women being attacked in Tahrir Square, because the victims now fear that rescuers may in fact turn out to be rapists.

　　ZEINAB SABAT: I reached the point where I don't get scared anymore. Now when someone touches me when I'm trying to, not intervene, but patrolling at least, or anything like that, it's never fine. But kind -- I know it's part of the job, like, it's something that you cannot prevent for now.

　　But when it comes to intervening, I saw cases. I saw victims and I -- it's traumatizing, and I see them. And I feel that it's not -- you cannot trust a man anymore.

　　LINDSEY HILSUM: Poverty, unemployment, segregation¹⁴ of the sexes, many factors contribute to endemic sexual harassment¹⁵ in Egypt. But deprivation¹⁶ in social attitudes are not the only causes.

　　JANET ABDEL ALEEM (through translator): The problem is, there's no law against this. People know if they go into the square and touch women, they will not be punished. Also, us women are blamed for being harassed¹⁷. We shouldn't blame women for this.

　　LINDSEY HILSUM: In Tahrir Square, they're holding Ramadan prayers just next to the place where women are frequently raped. Mob assaults and escalation¹⁸ of sexual harassment are the unintended consequence of a revolution that was meant to liberate¹⁹ Egyptians, men and women alike.

　　RAY SUAREZ: The Muslim Brotherhood and other groups are calling for a million man demonstration⁴ tomorrow in Cairo. Its aim is to protest President Morsi's ouster and clashes with Egypt's military that left more than 50 people dead.

1 distressing   

a.使人痛苦的

参考例句：

• All who saw the distressing scene revolted against it. 所有看到这种悲惨景象的人都对此感到难过。
• It is distressing to see food being wasted like this. 这样浪费粮食令人痛心。

2 harass   

vt.使烦恼，折磨，骚扰

参考例句：

• Our mission is to harass the landing of the main Japaness expeditionary force.我们的任务是骚乱日本远征军主力的登陆。
• They received the order to harass the enemy's rear.他们接到骚扰敌人后方的命令。

3 flirt   

v.调情，挑逗，调戏；n.调情者，卖俏者

参考例句：

• He used to flirt with every girl he met.过去他总是看到一个姑娘便跟她调情。
• He watched the stranger flirt with his girlfriend and got fighting mad.看着那个陌生人和他女朋友调情，他都要抓狂了。

4 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

5 demonstrations   

证明( demonstration的名词复数 )； 表明； 表达； 游行示威

参考例句：

• Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
• The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。

6 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

8 brotherhood   

n.兄弟般的关系，手中情谊

参考例句：

• They broke up the brotherhood.他们断绝了兄弟关系。
• They live and work together in complete equality and brotherhood.他们完全平等和兄弟般地在一起生活和工作。

9 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

10 factions   

组织中的小派别，派系( faction的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
• rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别

11 intimidate   

vt.恐吓，威胁

参考例句：

• You think you can intimidate people into doing what you want?你以为你可以威胁别人做任何事？
• The first strike capacity is intended mainly to intimidate adversary.第一次攻击的武力主要是用来吓阻敌方的。

12 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

13 bodyguard   

n.护卫，保镖

参考例句：

• She has to have an armed bodyguard wherever she goes.她不管到哪儿都得有带武器的保镖跟从。
• The big guy standing at his side may be his bodyguard.站在他身旁的那个大个子可能是他的保镖。

14 segregation   

n.隔离，种族隔离

参考例句：

• Many school boards found segregation a hot potato in the early 1960s.在60年代初，许多学校部门都觉得按水平分班是一个棘手的问题。
• They were tired to death of segregation and of being kicked around.他们十分厌恶种族隔离和总是被人踢来踢去。

15 harassment   

n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱

参考例句：

• She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
• The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。

16 deprivation   

n.匮乏；丧失；夺去，贫困

参考例句：

• Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous.多实验都证实了睡眠被剥夺是危险的。
• Missing the holiday was a great deprivation.错过假日是极大的损失。

17 harassed   

adj. 疲倦的，厌烦的 动词harass的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He has complained of being harassed by the police. 他投诉受到警方侵扰。
• harassed mothers with their children 带着孩子的疲惫不堪的母亲们

18 escalation   

n.扩大，增加

参考例句：

• The threat of nuclear escalation remains. 核升级的威胁仍旧存在。 来自辞典例句
• Escalation is thus an aspect of deterrence and of crisis management. 因此逐步升级是威慑和危机处理的一个方面。 来自辞典例句

19 liberate   

v.解放，使获得自由，释出，放出；vt.解放，使获自由

参考例句：

• They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
• This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。