(完整word版)綜合教程2課文翻譯AWomanCanLearnAnythingaManCan(Unit6TextA)

1、Unit 6 Woman, Half the SkyCarolyn Turk works in a profession that has traditionally been a career for men. Here she talksabout how she came to do so and how her success just goes to show that a woman can learnanything a man can.卡洛琳特克從事的職業(yè)傳統(tǒng)上一直是男人們的天下。在本文，她談到自己是如何干上這 一行的，并通過她的成功表明男人們能學(xué)會(huì)的事女人們也能做到。Text

2、 AA Woman Can Learn Anything a Man CanCarolyn Turk男人學(xué)得會(huì)的，女人也學(xué)得會(huì)卡羅琳特克1When I was a kid, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters and we had acomplete miniature kitchen, a herd of My Little Ponies and several Barbie and Ken dolls. We didnthave any toy trucks, G . I. Joes or basketballs. W

3、e did have a Wiffle-ball set, but you would havebeen hard-pressed to find it in our playroom. Tomboys we werent.我小的時(shí)候臥室里的每樣?xùn)|西都是粉紅色的。 我有兩個(gè)姐妹，我們有一個(gè)一應(yīng)俱全 的微型廚房，一群各種顏色的小馬駒，還有好幾個(gè)芭比和凱恩玩具娃娃。我們沒有玩具 卡車，沒有玩具大兵，也沒有籃球。我們確實(shí)有一套空心棒球，但是很難再我們的游戲 室找到，畢竟我們不是假小子。2So some people may find it ironic that I grew up to be a

4、mechanical engineer. In fact, I am theonly female engineer at my company. In order to get my college degree, I had to take a lot of mathand science classes. I also had to work with a team of students as part of a national competition toconvert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle - that

5、s where I learned how to fix cars.Im proud to say that I got As in all my classes, including multivariable calculus and differentialequations. Ive always been pretty good at math and design, but I didnt understand where thatcould take me. I was expected to go to college, but no one ever told me Id m

6、ake a good engineersomeday.正因?yàn)槿绱耍行┤藢?duì)我長(zhǎng)大后成了一名機(jī)械工程師也許感到出乎意外。事實(shí)上，我是我公司里唯一的一個(gè)女工程師。為了取得大學(xué)文憑， 我要上許多數(shù)學(xué)和自然科學(xué)方 面的課程。我還得和幾個(gè)學(xué)生一起工作，作為參與一次全國(guó)性競(jìng)賽的一部分，把一輛耗 費(fèi)汽油特多的運(yùn)動(dòng)型多用途汽車改裝成混合型電動(dòng)車就是這樣我學(xué)會(huì)了修汽車。 我 可以自豪的說，我門門功課都是A，包括多變量微積分和微分方程。我的數(shù)學(xué)和設(shè)計(jì)總 是相當(dāng)好，但是我不知道這些會(huì)給我?guī)硎裁礃拥慕Y(jié)果。家里要我上大學(xué)，但是沒人告 訴我有一天會(huì)成為一名優(yōu)秀的工程師。3When I was in high schoo

7、l, I didnt know the first thing about engineering. I couldnt havedistinguished a transmission from an alternator. The car I drove needed some work but I wasafraid to take it to the mechanic. Because honestly, the mechanic could have shown me an electriccan opener and said, This is part of your car a

8、nd its broken - pay me to fix it, and I wouldnt haveknown any better.我上高中時(shí)對(duì)工程一無所知。 我那時(shí)不能辨別變速器和交流發(fā)電機(jī)。我開的車需要 修理，但是我不敢把車開到修理工那里，因?yàn)檎f實(shí)話，如果修理工給我看一把電動(dòng)開罐 器并對(duì)我說：“這是你的汽車部件，壞了你付錢我給你修，”我也不會(huì)知道他在敲詐。4 At theend of my junior year of high school, I heard about a summer program designed to interest girls inengineerin

9、g. The six-week program was free, and students were given college credit and a dormroom at the University of Maryland. I applied to the program, not because I wanted to be anengineer, but because I was craving independence and wanted to get out of my parents house forsix weeks.我在高中第三年末的時(shí)候， 聽說有一個(gè)暑期班，

10、 專門培養(yǎng)女孩對(duì)工程的興趣。 課程 六周，不用繳費(fèi)。 學(xué)生還可以獲得大學(xué)學(xué)分， 還可以享受馬里蘭大學(xué)學(xué)生宿舍一個(gè)房間。 我申請(qǐng)參加這個(gè)暑期班，這倒不是因?yàn)槲蚁氘?dāng)工程師，而是因?yàn)槲铱释?dú)立，想離開父 母的房子自己?jiǎn)为?dú)過上六周。5I was accepted to the program and I earned six engineering credits. The next year I enteredthe university as an engineering major. Five years later I had a degree and three decent job off

11、ers.我被這個(gè)暑期班錄取了， 得到了六個(gè)工程學(xué)分。 第二年我上了這個(gè)大學(xué)， 主修工程。五年后我獲得了學(xué)位，還有三個(gè)像樣的就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)。6I cant help shuddering when I hear about studies that show that women are at adisadvantage when it comes to math. They imply that I am somehow abnormal. Im not, but I doknow that if I hadnt stumbled into that summer program, I wouldn

12、t be an engineer.聽到有研究表明女性學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)處于劣勢(shì)， 我不禁不寒而栗。 他們的言下之意是我有點(diǎn) 反常。我一點(diǎn)也不反常，但是我知道，要不是我偶然闖進(jìn)了那個(gè)暑期班，我是成不了工 程師的。7When I was growing up I was told, as many students are, to do what I am best at. But I didntknow what that was. Most people think that when you are good at something, it comes easily toyou. But this i

13、s what I discovered: just because a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean youare not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work harder to get good at it. Once you do,theres a strong chance you will enjoy it more than anything else.像許多學(xué)生一樣，我成長(zhǎng)過程中，就有人告訴我要做自己最擅長(zhǎng)的事。但是我不知 道自己最擅長(zhǎng)的是什么。

14、許多人認(rèn)為，如果你擅長(zhǎng)某件事，那你就能輕而易舉的把它學(xué) 好。但是我的發(fā)現(xiàn)是：某一門課程難學(xué)，并不意味著你不擅長(zhǎng)它。你得咬緊牙加倍努力 干，才能學(xué)好它。一旦你學(xué)好了，你就可能喜歡上它，從中得到無與倫比的樂趣。8 In eighth grade I tookalgebra. On one test I got only 36 percent of the answers correct. I failed the next one, too. Istarted to think, maybe Im just no good at this. I was lucky enough to have a

15、 teacher who didnttake my bad grades as a judgment of my abilities, but simply as an indication that I should studymore. He pulled me aside and told me he knew I could do better. He let me retake the tests, and Ipulled my grade up to an A.八年級(jí)時(shí)我修代數(shù)， 有一次考試我只答對(duì)了百分之三十六的題目。 接下去一次考試 我又不及格。于是我想，也許我確實(shí)不擅長(zhǎng)代數(shù)。

16、值得慶幸的是我有一位老師，他沒有 根據(jù)我的低分來衡量我的能力， 而認(rèn)為低分只表示我應(yīng)該下更大的功夫。他把我叫到一 旁，告訴我他知道我能學(xué)得更好。他讓我重考，這次我把成績(jī)提高到A。9I studied a lot in college, too. I had moments of panic while sitting underneath the buzzingfluorescent lights in the engineering library on Saturday afternoons, when I worried that theestrogen in my body was p

17、reventing me from understanding thermodynamics. But the guys in myclasses had to work just as hard, and I knew that I couldnt afford to lose confidence in myself. Ididnt want to choose between my femininity and a good career. So I reminded myself that thosestudies, the ones that say that math comes

18、more naturally to men, are based on a faulty premise:that you can judge a persons abilities separate from the cultural cues that she has received sinceshe was an infant. No man is an island. No woman is, either.我在大學(xué)也很努力。星期六下午坐在工程圖書館吱吱作響的熒光燈下學(xué)習(xí)時(shí)，我也 有過恐懼的時(shí)候， 擔(dān)心我體內(nèi)的雌激素妨礙我理解熱動(dòng)力學(xué)。但是我班上的男生也同樣 要下功夫， 我知道我不能

19、對(duì)自己?jiǎn)适判摹Ｎ也幌朐谂膵扇岷鸵粋€(gè)好職業(yè)中間兩者 只取其一。因此我提醒自己， 宣稱男性天生更能學(xué)好數(shù)學(xué)的研究是基于一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤的前提， 那就是認(rèn)為人們可以脫離一個(gè)人從孩提時(shí)代就受到社會(huì)的文化熏陶而徑直判斷她的能 力。男人不是孤島，女人也不是。10Why are we so quick to limit ourselves? Im not denying that most little girls love dolls andmost little boys love videogames, and it may be true that some people favor the righ

20、t side of theirbrain, and others the left. But how relevant is that to me, or to anyone, as an individual? Instead oftranslating our differences into hard and fast conclusions about the human brain, why cant wefocus instead on how incredibly flexible we are? Instead of using what we know as a reason whywomen cant learn physics, may