2017考研备考英语阅读每日精选：Justletmemansplain.docVIP

2017考研备考英语阅读每日精选：Just let me mansplain 　　“Just let me mansplain” 　　男人，你挡到我们的世界了…… 　　导读：当男人们居高临下对女性侃侃而谈、在地铁上霸气侧漏将女乘客挤在一边、在办公室任性打断女同事的发言时，女人们表示：不好意思，你挡到我们的世界了…… 　　If you are a woman, do you sometimes get annoyed when a man assumes you are an ignorant little girl and tries to explain something to you? And it often turns out he knows no more on the subject than you do. 　　如果你是一名女性，你是否常因被男人当作无知小女生来说教而感到恼怒?而通常，他在这个问题上懂的并不比你多。 　　Now you have an English word to describe this irritating behavior — “mansplaining”. The word has been included in Oxford Dictionaries’ online database and is defined as: “v. (of a man) explain something to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending and patronizing.” 　　现在，你可以用一个英文单词来形容这种令人生厌的行为了——男人说教(mansplaining)。该词已被收入牛津在线词典，其定义为：“(一个男人)以一副居高临下的姿态向别人，通常为女性，解释某件事情。” 　　According to an Atlantic article tracing the cultural history of “mansplaining”, the word began its life in 2008 when writer Rebecca Solnit wrote an essay titled “Men explain things to me” published in the Los Angeles Times. Solnit described the time a man explained a book to her without realizing that she wrote it. Solnit didn’t coin the word “mansplaining” herself, but she drew attention to the problem. In her words: 　　《大西洋月刊》曾有一篇文章追溯该词的历史渊源：它出现于2008年，源自作家丽贝卡?索尔尼发表于《洛杉矶时报》的一篇文章，题为“男人们向我侃侃而谈”。该文讲述了一个男人向索尔尼侃侃而谈一本书，却不知道这本书正出自索尔尼之手。“男人说教”一词并非索尔尼所创，但她的文章引起了人们对这一问题的注意。在文中，索尔尼写道： 　　“Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.” 　　“女人们一定都深有同感。因为这样的假设，每个领域的女性都举步维艰;她们缄口不言，即使有人大胆发声也无人倾听;就算在路上遭到了骚扰，也只能忍气吞声，因为人们认为世界不属于她们。这样的假设让我们怀疑自己、限制自己，却让男人们毫无理由地过度自信。 　　Gone viral 　　病毒式传播 　　Solnit’s essay struck a chord w