综合教程课文翻译A Woman Can Learn Anything a Man.docxVIP

Unit 6 Woman, Half the Sky Carolyn Turk works in a profession that has traditionally been a career for men. Here she talk she came to do so and how her success just goes to show that a woman can learn anything a man 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 男人学得会的，女人也学得会 Carolyn Turk 卡罗琳·特克 When I was a kid, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters and we had a comple miniature kitchen, a herd of My Little Ponies and several Barbie and Ken dolls. We didnt have trucks, G. I. Joes or basketballs. We did have a Wiffle-ball set, but you would have been hard 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。 So some people may find it ironic that I grew up to be a mechanical engineer. In fact, I am female engineer at my company. In order to get my college degree, I had to take a lot of math classes. I also had to work with a team of students as part of a national competition to conve gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle -- thats where I learned how to fix cars. Im that I got As in all my classes, including multivariable calculus and differential equations. pretty good at math and design, but I didnt understand where that could take me. I was expect 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许感到出乎意外。事实上，我是我公司里唯一的一个女工程师。为了取得大学文凭，我要上许多数学和自然科学方面的课程。我还得和几个学生一起工作，作为参与一次全国性竞赛的一部分，把一辆耗费汽油特多的运动型多用途汽车改装成混合型电动车——就是这样我学会了修汽车。我可以自豪的说，我门门功课都是 A ，包括多变量微积分和微分方程。我的数学和设计总是相当好，但是我不知道这些会给我带来什么样的结果。家里要我上大学，但是没人告诉我有一天会成为一名优秀的工程师。 When I was in high school, I didnt know the first thing about engineering. I couldnt have distinguished a transmission from an alternator. The car I drove needed some work but I was af it to the mechanic. Because honestly, the mechanic could have shown me an electric can opener This is part of your car and it