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Unit 6 Woman, Half the Sky Carolyn Turk works in a profession that has traditionally been a career for men. Here she talks about how she came to do so and how her success just goes to show that a woman can learn anything a man can. 卡洛琳特克从事的职业传统上一直是男人们的天下。在本文，她 谈到自己是如何干上这一行的，并通过她的成功表明男人们能学会的 事女人们也能做到。 Text A A Woman Can Learn Anything a Man Can Carolyn Turk 男人学得会的，女人也学得会 卡罗琳·特克 1 When I was a kid, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters and we had a complete miniature kitchen, a herd of My Little Ponies and several Barbie and Ken dolls. We didnt have any toy trucks, G. I. Joes or basketballs. We did have a Wiffle-ball set, but you would have been hard-pressed to find it in our playroom. Tomboys we werent. 我小的时候卧室里的每样东西都是粉红色的。我有两个姐妹， 我们有一个一应俱全的微型厨房，一群各种颜色的小马驹，还有好几 个芭比和凯恩玩具娃娃。我们没有玩具卡车，没有玩具大兵，也没有 篮球。我们确实有一套空心棒球，但是很难再我们的游戏室找到，毕 竟我们不是假小子。 2 So some people may find it ironic that I grew up to be a mechanical engineer. In fact, I am the only female engineer at my company. In order to get my college degree, I had to take a lot of math and science classes. I also had to work with a team of students as part of a national competition to convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle -- thats where I learned how to fix cars. Im proud to say that I got As in all my classes, including multivariable calculus and differential equations. Ive always been pretty good at math and design, but I didnt understand where that could take me. I was expected to go to college, but no one ever told me Id make a good engineer someday. 正因为如此，有些人对我长大后成了一名机械工程师也 感 到出乎意外。事实上，我是我公司里唯一的一个女工