AWomanCanLearnAnythingaManCan課文及翻譯標(biāo)準(zhǔn)

1、wordA Woman Can Learn Anything a Man Can男人會的，女人也能學(xué)會carolyn TurkWhen I was a kid, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters and we had a complete miniature kitchen, a herd of My Little Ponies and several Barbie and Ken dolls. We didnt have any toy trucks, G. I. Joes or basketballs. We did

2、 have a Wiffle-ball set, but you would have been hard-pressed to find it in our playroom. Tomboys we werent. 當(dāng)我還是個小孩時，我臥室里的所有東西都是粉紅色的。我有兩個姐姐，我們有一個一應(yīng)俱全的微型廚房、一群小矮種馬和一些芭比娃娃、肯娃娃。我們沒有玩具卡車、玩具大兵、籃球。我們確實有一套空心棒球，但是很難在我們的游戲室中找到。畢竟我們不是假小子。 So some people may find it ironic that I grew up to be a mechanical eng

3、ineer. In fact, I am the only female engineer at my company. In order to get my college degree, I had to take a lot of math and science classes. I also had to work with a team of students as part of a national competition to convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle thats where I lea

4、rned how to fix cars. Im proud to say that I got As in all my classes, including multivariable calculus and differential equations. Ive always been pretty good at math and design, but I didn't understand where that could take me. I was expected to go to college, but no one ever told me Id make a

5、 good engineer someday. 因而一些人或許會對我成長為一個機(jī)械工程師而倍感驚訝。事實上，我是我們公司唯一的一名女工程師。為了獲得我的大學(xué)文憑，我不得不上許多數(shù)學(xué)和自然科學(xué)課程。我也不得不和一小組學(xué)生合作去參加一個全國競賽將一輛耗油特多的運(yùn)動型多用途汽車改裝為一輛混合電動汽車正是這樣我學(xué)會了修車。我很驕傲我門門功課都是A，包括多元微積分和微分方程。我的數(shù)學(xué)和設(shè)計一向很好，雖然我不明白這會給我?guī)硎裁唇Y(jié)果。家里人期盼我去上大學(xué)，但沒有人告訴過我我將來會成為一名優(yōu)秀的工程師。 When I was in high school, I didnt know the first th

6、ing about engineering. I couldnt have distinguished a transmission from an alternator. The car I drove needed some work but I was afraid to take it to the mechanic. Because honestly, the mechanic could have shown me an electric can opener and said, “This is part of your car and its broken pay me to

7、fix it, and I wouldnt have known any better.在我還在上高中時，我對工程一竅不通。我根本分辨不出哪一個是變速器，哪一個是交流發(fā)電機(jī)。我開的車壞了需要修理，但我害怕讓機(jī)修工給我修一下。因為說實話，機(jī)修工可能會給我看一個電動開罐器，然后對我說：“這是你車上的零部件，壞了給我錢，我替你修,",我不會清楚這是否是個敲詐。 At the end of my junior year of high school, I heard about a summer program designed to interest girls in engineerin

8、g. The six-week program was free, and students were given college credit and a dorm room at the University of Maryland. I applied to the program, not because I wanted to be an engineer, but because I was craving independence and wanted to get out of my parents house for six weeks. 我在高中第三年末的時候，聽說了一個暑

9、期班，專門致力于提升 文檔沖億季，好禮樂相隨mini ipad移動硬盤拍立得百度書包 女孩對工程的興趣。課程長達(dá)六周，完全免費(fèi)，并且參加的學(xué)生還能獲得大學(xué)學(xué)分以及住在馬蘭里大學(xué)的學(xué)生宿舍里。我報了那個暑期班，并不是因為我想成為一名工程師，而是由于我渴望獨立，希望能夠搬離父母的房子自己生活六周。 I was accepted to the program and I earned six engineering credits. The next year I entered the university as an engineering major. Five years later I h

10、ad a degree and three decent job offers.我被那個暑期班接受了并且獲得了6個工程學(xué)分。第二年我進(jìn)入馬蘭里大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)，主修工程學(xué)。五年后我獲得了學(xué)位并且得到了3個像樣的工作時機(jī)。 I cant help shuddering when I hear about studies that show that women are at a disadvantage when it comes to math. They imply that I am somehow abnormal. Im not, but I do know that if I hadnt s

11、tumbled into that summer program, I wouldnt be an engineer. 每當(dāng)聽到研究說明女人在學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)方面處于劣勢時我總是情不自禁地戰(zhàn)栗。這暗示我有點不正常。我并非不正常，但我確實知道如果不是因為一個偶然的機(jī)遇參加了那個暑期班，我絕不會成為一名工程師。 When I was growing up I was told, as many students are, to do what I am best at. But I didnt know what that was. Most people think that when you are g

12、ood at something, it comes easily to you. But this is what I discovered: just because a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean you are 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

13、 else. 和許多學(xué)生一樣，在我成長過程中，別人告訴我將來去從事自己擅長的事。但我并不清楚我自己最擅長什么。大多數(shù)人會認(rèn)為你某樣?xùn)|西學(xué)得很好時，這種東西對你而言就很簡單但是我發(fā)現(xiàn)：僅僅因為一門學(xué)科很難學(xué)，這并不意味著你在這方面不強(qiáng)。你只是需要咬緊牙關(guān)，更加努力地去學(xué)好它。一旦你這樣做了，就很有可能你會享受這門學(xué)科給你帶來的其他任何東西都無法比較的無限樂趣。 In eighth grade I took algebra. On one test I got only 36 percent of the answers correct. I failed the next one, too. I

14、 started to think, Maybe Im just no good at this. I was lucky enough to have a teacher who didnt take my bad grades as a judgment of my abilities, but simply as an indication that I should study more. He pulled me aside and told me he knew I could do better. He let me the tests, and I pulled my grad

15、e up to an A. 八年級我學(xué)代數(shù)時，一次考試我只有36%的答案正確。接下來的一次考試我又不及格。我開始質(zhì)疑自己，或許我真的不擅長代數(shù)。值得慶幸的是，我的老師并沒有用我糟糕的分?jǐn)?shù)來評判我的能力，而是將它作為我應(yīng)該多多強(qiáng)化的信號。他把我叫到一旁，告訴我他知道我能做的更好。他讓我重考，結(jié)果我將成績提升到了A。 I studied a lot in college, too. I had moments of panic while sitting underneath the buzzing fluorescent lights in the engineering library on

16、Saturday afternoons, when I worried that the estrogen in my body was preventing me from understanding thermodynamics. But the guys in my classes had to work just as hard, and I knew that I couldnt afford to lose confidence in myself. I didnt want to choose between my femininity and a good career. So

17、 I reminded myself that those studies, the ones that say that math comes 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 since she was an infant. No man is an island. No woman is, either.在大學(xué)里我同樣學(xué)了很多東西。

18、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，我也有過恐懼的時候，擔(dān)憂我體內(nèi)的雌激素會阻礙我理解熱力學(xué)。但是我班上的男同學(xué)們也同樣在刻苦學(xué)習(xí)，我知道我不能夠?qū)ψ约簡适判摹Ｎ也幌朐谖遗詺赓|(zhì)和擁有一份好工作兩者之中只取其一。因此我提醒自己那些研究，那些說數(shù)學(xué)對男性來說更自然的研究是建立在一個有缺陷的前提之上的：那就是認(rèn)為你可以完全不考慮一個人從她還是嬰兒時就受到的文化熏陶來判斷她的能力。男人不是孤島，女人也不是。 Why are we so quick to limit ourselves Im not denying that most little girls love dolls a

19、nd most little boys love videogames, and it may be true that some people favor side of their brain, and others the left. But how relevant is that to me, or to anyone, as an individual Instead of translating our differences into hard and fast conclusions about the human brain, why cant we focus instead on how incredibly flexible we are Instead of using what we know as a reason why women cant learn physics, maybe we shoul