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在沙特阿拉伯， 并没有那么一条成文法律不允许妇女开车。但这种行为却是被禁止的。两年前，马纳尔谢里夫决定身体力行去鼓励女性打破传统去开车，她把她自己开车的视频晒在YOUTUBE上。来听听她的故事里后来都发生了什么吧。
n. 坏人，恶根 n. 罪犯
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- So I think by now, everyone knows that we can't drive,
- 我在想，现在人们都知道我们不能开车
- or women are not allowed to drive, in Saudi Arabia,
- 或者说，在沙特阿拉伯，妇女不允许开车
- but maybe few know why.
- 但很少有人知道其中的缘由
- Allow me to help you answer this question.
- 我来告诉你们吧
- There was this official study
- 根据官方研究
- that was presented to the Shura Council --
- 这个研究被提交给了协商议院——
- it's the consultative council appointed
- 这个理事评议会
- by the king in Saudi Arabia
- 由沙特阿拉伯国王委任
- and it was done by a local professor,
- 一位当地教授做的这项研究
- a university professor.
- 一位大学教授
- He claims it's done based on a UNESCO study.
- 他说这个研究基于一项联合国教科文组织调查
- And the study states,
- 这个调查表明
- the percentage of rape, adultery,
- 在那些妇女开车的国家
- illegitimate children, even drug abuse,
- 强奸、通奸、私生子和滥用药品的比例
- prostitution in countries where women drive
- 要比那些
- is higher than countries where women don't drive.
- 妇女不开车的国家比例更高
- I know, I was like this, I was shocked.
- 对，我知道，我也这样被惊到了
- I was like, "We are the last country in the world
- 就像“我们沙特是地球上最后一个
- where women don't drive."
- 还不接受妇女开车的国家”
- So if you look at the map of the world,
- 如果你看下世界地图
- that only leaves two countries:
- 那就是:
- Saudi Arabia, and the other society is the rest of the world.
- 沙特和除了沙特的其他国家
- We started a hashtag on Twitter mocking the study,
- 我们在推特上嘲讽这项研究做了个话题
- and it made headlines around the world.
- 然后这就成了世界头条新闻
- (BBC News: 'End of virginity' if women drive, Saudi cleric warns)
- (BBC新闻：沙特神职人员警告道，如果妇女开车，这将会是她们贞操的终结)
- And only then we realized it's so empowering
- 我们那时才明白讽刺压迫者
- to mock your oppressor.
- 可以给予自己如此强大的力量
- It strips it away of its strongest weapon: fear.
- 因为它除去了压迫者最强大的武器：恐惧
- This system is based on ultra-conservative
- 它建立在极保守的
- traditions and customs
- 传统及习俗
- that deal with women as if they are inferior
- 而妇女常常处于弱势
- and they need a guardian to protect them,
- 她们需要保护者来保护她们
- so they need to take permission from this guardian,
- 她们需要从保护者得到许可
- whether verbal or written, all their lives.
- 口头的或者是书面的，所有人都是这样
- We are minors until the day we die.
- 我们妇女直到死亡都是弱者
- And it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fatwas
- 当宗教教令建立在对伊斯兰教令
- based on wrong interpretation of the sharia law,
- 或者地方法令，错误的解释上时
- or the religious laws.
- 情况变得更糟了
- What's worst, when they become codified
- 当压迫者变成了
- as laws in the system,
- 法律教令的制定编纂者
- and when women themselves believe in their inferiority,
- 当妇女们认为她们本来就是卑贱的
- and they even fight those who try
- 当压迫者去打击那些试图反抗的人
- to question these rules.
- 这就是最糟糕的情况了
- So for me, it wasn't only about these attacks I had to face.
- 对我来说，我所面对不仅仅是针对我的攻击
- It was about living two totally different
- 这是两种完全不同的生活
- perceptions of my personality, of my person --
- 有关我个性，个人的理解
- the villain back in my home country,
- 在我的祖国家乡，我成了卑鄙的小人
- and the hero outside.
- 在外面，我又是英雄
- Just to tell you, two stories happened in the last two years.
- 就说说这两年发生的事情吧
- One of them is when I was in jail.
- 其中一个发生于我在监狱里
- I'm pretty sure when I was in jail,
- 我很确定，当我被关进监狱时
- everyone saw titles in the international media
- 所有人都从国际媒体上看到了报道
- something like this during these nine days I was in jail.
- 我在里面时，他们的报道是这样的
- But in my home country, it was a totally different picture.
- 但在我的祖国，完全就是另外一幅情形了
- It was more like this:
- 就像这样
- "Manal al-Sharif faces charges of disturbing public order
- “马纳尔谢里夫面临扰乱社会秩序
- and inciting women to drive."
- 并教唆妇女开车的指控
- I know.
- 我知道(这很假)
- "Manal al-Sharif withdraws from the campaign."
- “马纳尔谢里夫退出了运动”
- Ah, it's okay. This is my favorite.
- 哦这还好，下面这个很有意思
- "Manal al-Sharif breaks down and confesses:
- “马纳尔谢里夫投降了并坦白
- 'Foreign forces incited me.'"
- 有外国势力指使我”
- And it goes on, even trial and flogging me in public.
- 更进一步，甚至有人在公共场合审判并鞭打我
- So it's a totally different picture.
- 这完全就是另外一幅景象
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| villain | ['vilən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| protect | [prə'tekt] | 联想记忆 | ||
| verbal | ['və:bəl] | |||
| permission | [pə'miʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| campaign | [kæm'pein] | 联想记忆 | ||
| illegitimate | [.ili'dʒitimit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| disturbing | [di'stə:biŋ] | |||
| inferiority | [in.fiəri'ɔriti] | |||
| interpretation | [in.tə:pri'teiʃən] | |||
| guardian | ['gɑ:diən] |
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