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汉娜.罗森回顾了表明女性在某些重要领域超越男性的一些显著的新数据，例如大学毕业率。这些不仅以美国为中心还在整个世界都流行的趋势是否预示着“男性时代的结束”？也许并非如此—但这些表明社会变化的数据值得揣摩。
n. 课程，全部课程
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- And what's even more disturbing is what's happening with younger boys.
- 更加令人不安的是发生在年轻的男孩子身上的事情。
- There's been about a decade of research about what people are calling the "boy crisis."
- 这有一个进行了大约十年的调查，关于人们所谓的男生危机是什么。
- Now the boy crisis is this idea that very young boys, for whatever reason,
- 现在的男生危机是年幼的男生，不知道为什么，
- are doing worse in school than very young girls, and people have theories about that.
- 在学校里表现得比年幼的女生差。人们有关于这件事情的理论。
- Is it because we have an excessively verbal curriculum,
- 是因为我们有过多的语言课程,
- and little girls are better at that than little boys?
- 小女孩在这个方面比男孩做得更好吗?
- Or that we require kids to sit still too much, and so boys initially feel like failures?
- 又或者是我们过多地要求孩子们坐着不动，所以男孩子们觉得很失败？
- And some people say it's because, in 9th grade, boys start dropping out of school.
- 有一些人说因为在九年级的时候，男孩子开始退学。
- Because I'm writing a book about all this, I'm still looking into it, so I don't have the answer.
- 因为我在写一本关于这个的书，我仍然在做调查，所以我还没有结果。
- But in the mean time, I'm going to call on the worldwide education expert,
- 但同时，我将呼吁世界级教育专家，
- who's my 10-year-old daughter, Noa, to talk to you about why the boys in her class do worse.
- 也就是我十岁的女儿，诺亚，和你们谈谈为什么男孩子在他们班表现比较差。
- The girls are obviously smarter. I mean they have much larger vocabulary.
- 女生的确更聪明。我是说她们有更多的词汇量。
- They learn much faster. They are more controlled.
- 她们学得更快。她们更遵守纪律。
- On the board today for losing recess tomorrow, only boys.
- 在今天的黑板上只有男生被罚失去明天的休息时间。
- And why is that?
- 为什么呢？
- Why? They were just not listening to the class while the girls sat there very nicely.
- 为什么？他们不听讲，而女生坐得很端正。
- So there you go.
- 所以你现在知道了。
- This whole thesis really came home to me
- 这个论文
- when I went to visit a college in Kansas City -- working-class college.
- 是当我在访问堪萨斯市的一所大学时决定的--一所工薪阶层的大学。
- Certainly, when I was in college, I had certain expectations about my life --
- 当然当我在大学的时候，我对我的人生有非常明确的期望--
- that my husband and I would both work, and that we would equally raise the children.
- 我的丈夫和我都工作，我们平等地共同抚养孩子。
- But these college girls had a completely different view of their future.
- 但是这些大学女孩儿们对她们的未来有着完全不同的看法。
- Basically, the way they said it to me is that they would be working 18 hours a day,
- 基本上，他们对我说的是，他们将一天工作十八个小时，
- that their husband would maybe have a job,
- 他们的丈夫有可能有工作，
- but that mostly he would be at home taking care of the kiddies.
- 但是大部分他们将在家里照看孩子。
- And this was kind of a shocker to me.
- 这对我来说是一个震惊。
- And then here's my favorite quote from one of the girls: "Men are the new ball and chain."
- 这个是我最喜欢的一个女孩的话：“男人是新的累赘”
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| curriculum | [kə'rikjuləm] | 联想记忆 | ||
| initially | [i'niʃəli] | |||
| controlled | [kən'trəuld] | |||
| recess | [ri'ses] | 联想记忆 | ||
| excessively | [ik'sesivli] | |||
| certain | ['sə:tn] | |||
| quote | [kwəut] | 联想记忆 | ||
| disturbing | [di'stə:biŋ] | |||
| decade | ['dekeid] | 联想记忆 | ||
| verbal | ['və:bəl] |
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