新世纪博士生综合英语Unit 1 课文及译文

2.

“I never felt any sorrow,” Rani, a farm laborer with

a weather-beaten face, said through an

interpreter

.

“There

was

a

lot

of

bitterness

in

my

heart

toward

the

baby

because

the

gods

should have given me a son.”

“

我从来没有感到任何悲哀

”

，脸部饱经风霜的拉尼通过翻译说，

“

我的心对孩子充满了辛

酸，因为神本应该赐予我一个儿子

”

。

year hundreds and perhaps thousands of newborn girls in India are murdered by their

mothers

simply

because

they

are

female.

Some

women

believe

that

sacrificing

a

daughter

guarantees

a

son

in

the

next

pregnancy.

In

other

cases,

the

family

cannot

afford

the

dowry

that would eventually be demanded for a girl?s marriage.

在印度每年有数百甚至数 千名新生女婴被他们的母亲谋杀，只因为他们是女孩。有些妇女认

为，牺牲一个女儿将保 证下次怀孕是儿子。在其他情况下，家庭买不起女孩结婚时所需的嫁

妆。

for many mothers, sentencing a daughter to death is better than condemning her to life

as

a

woman

in

the

Third

World,

with

cradle-to-grave

discrimination,

poverty,

sickness

and

drudgery.

对于很多母亲而言，判处女儿死刑胜过让 她在第三世界作为一个女人生活，经历一辈子的歧

视、贫困、疾病和劳苦。

5.

While

women

in

the

United

States

and

Europe-----after

decades

of

struggling

for

equal

rights----often measure sex discrimination by pay scales and seats in corporate board rooms,

women in the Third World gauge discrimination by mortality rates and poverty levels.

虽然欧美国家的妇女，在经过 了几十年对平等权利的抗争之后，通常以工薪标准和董事会中的

席位来衡量性别歧视，但 第三世界的妇女以死亡率和贫困程度来衡量歧视。

6.

“Women are the most exploited among the

oppressed

,” says Kauna Chanana Ahmed, a New

Delhi

anthropologist

who

has

studied

the

role

of

women

in

developing

countries.

“I

don?t

think it?s even possible to

eradicate

discrimination, it?s so deeply

ingrained

.”

妇女是最受压迫和剥削的

”

，研究妇女在发展中国家的地位的新德里的人类学家

Karuna

Chanana Ahmed

说，

“< /p>

我认为消除歧视甚至是不可能的，因为歧视已经根深蒂固。

”

7.

This

is

the

first

in

a

series

that

will

examine

the

lives

of

women

in

developing

countries

around

the

globe

where

culture,

religion

and

the

law

often

deprive

women

of

basic

human

rights

and

sometimes

relegate

them

to

almost

subhuman

status.

From

South

America

to

South Asia, women are often subjected to a lifetime of discrimination with little or no hope of

relief.

这是第一次系列地调查全世界范围内发展中国 家妇女的生活，这些国家里的文化、宗教和法律

常常剥夺妇女们的基本人权，并时常将她 们归入几乎低于人类的地位。从南美到南亚，妇女通

常遭受一生的歧视，很少或根本没有 希望获得减轻。

8. As children, they are fed less, denied education and refused hospitalization. As teenagers,

many are forced into marriage, sometimes bought and sold like animals for prostitution and

slave labor. As wives and mothers, they are often treated little better than farmhands and baby

machines.

Should

they

outlive

their

husbands,

they

frequently

are

denied

inheritance,

banished from their homes and forced to live as beggars on the streets.

作为孩子，她们 被给予的食物少、被剥夺了教育，并被拒绝住院。作为青少年，许多人被迫结

婚，有时像 动物一样被买卖从事卖淫活动和辛苦的劳动。作为妻子和母亲，她们的待遇与雇农

和婴儿 机器相比没有区别。如果她们活得时间比她们的丈夫久，她们经常被拒绝继承遗产，被

驱 逐出她们的家园，被迫在大街上以乞讨为生。

gh, the forms of discrimination vary tremendously among regions, ethnic groups and

age levels in the developing world. Shahla Zia , an attorney

and women?s activist in Islamabad,

Pakistan, says there is a theme:”

Overall, there is a social and cultural attitude where women

are inferior---

and discrimination tends to start at birth.”

巴基斯坦伊斯兰堡的律师和妇女活动家

Shahla