【背景】
外媒称,中国将30岁前嫁不出去的女性划定为“剩女”,这让中国的年轻女性感到不舒服。
【新闻】
我们来看一段相关的英文报道
China has upset its young female population by labelling those who fail to marry by the time they are 27 as left-over woman. Growing number of educated, professional, urban females aged 27-30 have failed to find a husband.
And census figures show that around one in five women aged 25-29 is unmarried.
The All-China Federation of Women has recently dropped the label and now refers to old unmarried women - but the left-over expression remains widely used elsewhere.
中国将27岁还没嫁出去的女孩称作“剩女”,这一称号让这一女性群体很是沮丧。在城市里,越来越多受过良好教育的职业女性已经年过27,即将步入而立之年,却还未能找到另一半。
统计数据显示,年龄在25岁到29岁之间的中国女性有五分之一是未婚。
中国妇联近日已经弃用“剩女”一词,改用“大龄未婚女青年”,但是“剩女”一词在其他地方还是被广泛使用。
【讲解】
“left-over woman”解释为剩女,“剩女”的表达还有:left-over lady、3S lady,其中3S是指single (单身)、seventies (大多数生于上世纪七十年代)、stuck(被卡住了)。其他的表达还有:宅男(indoorsman)、凤凰男(phoenix man)、拜金女(material girl)