时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课
近四十年来,尽管非性别歧视语还没有达到非不可的程度,但它毕竟已进人日常会话和写作的主流之中。随便翻开一张英美的报纸,或瞧一下五花八门的宣传广告,就会发现supervisor(工头,领班)替代了原来的foreman, workman's compensation(工人赔偿金)变成了worker's compensation; sales rep, sales associate或seller(推销员)取代了常用词salesman等。为此,笔者将有关资料整理如下,供英语学习者参考。请注意,所选用的例句,除个别注明外,均选自Rosalie Maggio编写的The Nonselist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage (Maggio, 1989)。

1.尽量不用通性代词he,除了明确地指代一个男性人物时,都要设法避免使用之。可以根据语境需要,选用下列替换方式:

1)采用复数形式
Sexist: When bathing a baby, never leave him unattended.
Revised: When bathing babies, never leave them unattended.
给婴儿洗澡时,一定不能让他们无人照料。

2)用we/us/our改写原句
Sexist: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Revised: From each of us according to our abilities, to each of us according to our needs.
各尽所能,按需分配。

3)改用第二人称、
Sexist: No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment 1 plan and raised an adolescent.

Revised: You don't know what your true character is until you have run out of gas, purchased something on the ! installment plan and raised an adolescent.
只有当汽车大的油用光了,按分规付款方式购物和抚养大一个孩子时,人的本来品性才会显露出来。

4)改用被动语态
Sexist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Revised: One who, when given the choice of two evils, chooses both.
一个在两种恶行之中要作出选择就两者都选的人。

5)完全省略代词
Sexist: What a person thinks of after he becomes a departee?
Revised: What a person thinks of after becoming a departee?
一个人离去后,会作何感想呢?

6)用冠词替代
Sexist: Can a critic give his opinion of an omelet without being asked to make one?
Revised: Can a critic give an opinion of...?
评论家议论煎蛋时难道到非要他去自己煎鸡蛋吗?

7)用someone, one, the one, no one等替代
Sexist: He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Revised: Someone who can take advice is sometimes superior to the one who can give it.
接受忠告者有时胜过发出忠告者。

8)使用he and she或his and her,但使用的次数不宜太多。s/he仅可用于备忘录(memos), 便条(notes), 或者非正式的交谈之中。

9)用名词或上下文中用过的同义词替换
Sexist: To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
Revised: To find a friend, one must close one eye - to keep a friend, two.
想找朋友;就得睁一只眼,闭一只眼;想留住朋友,就得双眼都闭上。


n.(instalment)分期付款;(连载的)一期
  • I shall soon pay the last installment of my debt.不久我将偿付我的最后一期债款。
  • He likes to buy things on the installment plan.他喜欢用分期付款法购买货物。
学英语单词
absolute case
access restriction
adjustable tension drier
altariq
American wistaria
anterior chamber of eyeball
anti moral
anti-SSA antibody
as innocent as a lamb
asset-based financing
atophanyl
auto manufacturing
autofluorescence
autoignited
autun
axial gland
bad eggs
bath mats
beating method
bedbounds
benmont
Bermejo (River)
brick clay
Broken Arrows
charged particle X-ray excitation technique
commoter
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors
complementary pair
counterclockwise
craniospinal
d'italia
damark
directional current protection
dufka
energizing circuit relay
enetopia
ensigncies
epicenter azimuth
family - owned business
feoffor
flare line
four-wire carrier system
free tree
genus Hippoglossus
grain molecular volume
gram-atomic
have no quarrel with
high efficiency particle air filter
holbach
Hualapai Peak
interchange toll station
john trumbulls
lagopous
lining cells
Manicheists
manlid
May Hill sandstone
meter loss
motor time constant
Mucopolysaccharidep
Musidoridae
mussorgskies
navigating in rocky water
nonsuiting
oceanliner
otds
packaging conveyer line
primary keyword
punctiform
quasi elastic force
raising-prescriptions
rapid travelling speed of table
refetch state
rhyming
round nut with set pin holes in side
sawickis
scatheful
scipiones
seaxes
sectional pilotage
semiquinone-quinone
sfield
shrink-fitted shell
side curtain
smoke oil
sofitel
stallon
state of market
swap-on-the-fly
Swift Current
take-off power rating
talpade
the model of half-experience and half-theory
thymidol
transmit beam forming
treece
tubular cyst
unagonizing
versenic acid
viola betoniefolia sm.
watch a film
withsetting