翻译实例评析GeniusSacrificedforFailureDrWilliamN.pptVIP

翻译实例评析　Genius Sacrificed for Failure 1Dr. William N. Brown During my youth in America’s Appalachian mountains, I learned that farmers preferred sons over daughters, largely because boys were better at heavy farm labor (though what boys anywhere could best the tireless Hui’an girls in the fields of Fujian!) 2 With only 3% of Americans in agriculture today, brain has supplanted brawn,3 yet cultural preferences, like bad habits, are easier to make than break. But history warns repeatedly of the tragic cost of dismissing too casually the gifts of the so-called weaker sex.4 About 150 years ago, a