高级英语上lesson 5 Microsoft PowerPoint 演示文稿

1、Lesson 5Id Rather Re Black than Female(by Shirley Chisholm)(Shirley Chisholm)（1924-2005）， The First Female Black CongresswomanShirley Chisholm 雪莉奇斯和姆(November 30, 1924 January 1, 2005) An American Congresswoman(for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.), educator, and author. 1. In 1968, she became the fir

2、st black woman elected to Congress. 2. On January 25, 1972, she became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.民主党总民主党总统提名统提名 American women contributed a lot to the development of the society but

3、they have been suffering from sexual discrimination of all kinds-In politics, they have done all the tedious details that make the difference between victory and defeat on election day, while men reaped the rewards. Economically, women predominate in the lower-paying, dead-end jobs and they are inva

4、riably paid less than a man for the same job. Many Americans dont think it is prejudice against women, but say that it is just the division of labor. And many American women are content with their role as second-class citizen. So according to the author, it will be a long and hard struggle for women

5、 to gain the real equality. Background The feministfemnst movement (also known as the Womens Movement, Womens Liberation, or Womens Lib) refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as domestic violence, maternity mtnt leave产假 , equal pay, voting rights, sexual harassmenthrsm()nt性骚扰 et

6、c. Slogan: Women hold up half the sky.Words and Expressions 1. ambassadorialm,bsd:ril ambassador mbsd 大使 Embassy embs 大使馆 美国驻华大使： U.S. Ambassador to China 2. Assembly assemble组装 disassemble 拆解 state assemblies 州众议院 federal/local assemblies 联邦、地方议会 3. Convention conference 大会 eg. social convention社会习

7、俗，常规，惯例 conventional approach 传统方法,常规方法traditional approach好处好处 优点优点 长处长处 Advantage Merit Benefit Strong points virtue Strength缺点缺点 不利不利 短处短处 Disadvantage demeritdimert 4. Drawback Shortcomings Defect weakness2021-8-5 5. empathy emp : the ability to understand another persons feelings, experience, e

8、tc. 同感，共鸣，同情。 empathize with sb/sth The mother feels empathy with her son. 母亲觉得她和儿子情感是相通的 6. inferior to ，superior to social inferiority 社会地位地下 a sense of inferiority 自卑感 7. masculine mskjln 男子汉的，男子气概的 feminine 女性的，feminism 女性主义 8. predominate : A. to outnumber (数量上+ over /in）占优势; Female students pr

9、edominate over male students in our class.我们班女生比男生多 B. to have the most influence or importance （+ over sth/sb)占主导地位，有最大影响. Female students predominate in our class.我们班以女生为主 9. sit-in: 静坐罢工/示威 to hold a sit-in to stage a sit-in举行，举办，stage a strike 10. suppress suppression depress depression a. put a

10、n end by force to a group or an activity that is believed to threaten authority 镇压，平定The rebellion was brutally suppressed. b. to prevent sth from growing, developing or continuing 压制，阻止，抑制 These drugs can suppress your appetite. 11. Tokenism tk()nz()m （token n. ; adj. ) Token: n. a symbol of sth 象征

11、，标志 As a token of : 作为的标志 Please accept this gift as a small token of our gratitude. 区区薄礼，略表谢意。 By the same token. 同样地， 出于同样原因 12. unrewarding adj Rewarding : worth doing, that makes you happy because you think it is useful or important 值得做的，有益的 a experience Teaching is not very financially rewardin

12、g教学不是很教学不是很丰厚的经济回报丰厚的经济回报 15SESSION TWO: TEXT Id rather be black than female Id rather than： prefer to-Id rather deal with a simple man than a sophisticated man.我宁愿与纯朴的人打交道，不愿与世故的人交往。-I had rather never have been born than see this day of humiliation.我宁愿自己未曾出生，也不愿遭受今天的耻辱。 would （had） rather 但愿 （+tha

13、t 从句中用过去式）。 I would rather he didnt tell her about it. 我真希望他不告诉她这件事。 I had rather you did it alone. 但愿你一人做。 1.Being the first black woman elected to Congress has made me some kind of phenomenon.我是第一位当选国会议员的黑人妇女，这使我不同凡响。 p60 elect to/ as She became the first black woman to be elected to Senate (机构组织）

14、 2.Phenomenon: a person that is successful and impressive. 非凡的人才，奇才，奇迹。 phenomenal economic growth. 不寻常的经济增长 3.That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still strikes nearly all men and, I am afraid, most women as bizarre.说美国存在着对妇女的歧视对于几乎所有男人还有大多数女人来说却是不可思议的。 p61 Some employers are preju

15、diced against female jobseekers.有些用人单位对女性求职者有偏见。 prejudice sb against sb/sth My own school days ed me against all formal education. 我自己的学生时代使我对所有的正规教育产生了偏见。 4.When blacks finally started to “mention” it, with sit-ins, boycotts, and freedom rides, Americans were incredulous.当黑人终于通过静坐示威、联合抵制和自由乘车游行的方式

16、以示抗议，来提及这个问题时，他们觉得简直难以置信。 p60 sit-in: 静坐罢工 to hold a sit-in to stage a sit-in Boycott: to refuse to buy, use or take part in sth as a way of protesting 抵制 We are appealing to people to boycott Carrefour krf我们正在呼吁人们抵制家乐福我们正在呼吁人们抵制家乐福 . Freedom ride 自由乘车大游行 Freedom Rides : In1960s,civil rights activis

17、ts rode interstate（美）州际公路 buses into the segregatedseretdadj.被隔离的被隔离的 southern United States to challenge racial discrimination acts on buses and trains. American are incredulous. p61 incredible incredulous Incredulous : not willing or not able to believe sth; means skeptical or unbelieving. It refe

18、rs to a persons response. 不肯相信的，不能相信的，表示怀疑的。 Incredible :impossible or very difficult to believe; means hard to believe, literally not able to be believed. 不能相信的，难以置信的 incredulous look/face incredible story 5.Part of the problem is that women in America are much more brainwashed and content with the

19、ir roles as second class citizens than blacks ever were.部分问题在于比起黑人来美国妇女被洗脑的程度更深，且更满足于她们次等公民的角色p61。 brainwash Brainwash sb (into doing sth) Dont let television commercials brainwash you into buying anything you actually dont need.别让电视广告引诱你购买自己实际不需要的东西。 A brainstorm= a brainwave 妙计 brainstorming 集思广益的

20、 6.For all but the last six, I have done the work all the tedious details that make the difference between victory and defeat on election day while men reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.除了最后的那六年，其余那些年干活的是我，我干的是所有无聊琐碎但对竞选胜负至关重要的工作可得到好处的却是男人，这几乎就是政界妇女一直以来的命运。

21、p61 reap :to get sth good as a result of what you have done Reap the reward/profit/benefit of sth :得到回报/获利/受益 You reap what you sow. As a man sows, so he shall reap. Invariable: always the same, never changing an invariable practice 一贯的做法 7.The best any of them can hope for is the honor of being dis

22、trict or county vice-chairman， a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is rewarded for years of faithful envelope stuffing and card-party organizing.p61 她们中任何一个人所能期待的最好结果是有幸当选为区或县的副主席，这是一个（符合）“隔离却平等”（原则）的职位，是对一位妇女多年来一直忠实地从事装信封和组织牌局工作的奖赏。 Separate but equal was a legal doctrine(原则thr

23、ough the case of Plessy v. Ferguson ） in United States Constitutional law that justified systems of segregation.p67note14 Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race, on the condition that the quality of each groups public facilities were

24、to remain equal. 隔离但平等隔离但平等（Separate but equal），是种族隔离政策的一种表现形式，它试图通过为不同种族提供表面平等的设施或待遇，从而使实施空间隔离的做法合理化。 8. When I tried to break out of that role in 1963 and run for the New York State Assembly seat from Brooklyns Bedford-Stuyvesant, the resistance was bitter. 1963年，当我企图摆脱这一角色代表布鲁克林的贝德富锡斯图维桑特参加竞选纽约州众

25、议院的席位时，遇到了极大的阻力。 p62Bronx , Brooklyn, Manhattan , Queens , Staten Islandfive boroughs br of New York City 8. The happy homemaker and the contented darky are both stereotypes produced by prejudice.快乐的家庭主妇和心满意足的黑鬼都是由歧视产生的典型人物。 p62 Stereotype成见，陈规，陈词滥调，模式化观念和（印象）、刻板印象、老一套 A fixed idea or image that man

26、y people have of a particular type of person or thing, but which is often not true in reality eg. This view is based on misconceptions and outdated stereotypes. 这种观点是基于误解和过时的成见。 9. Women have not even reached the level of tokenism that blacks are reaching.妇女甚至还没有达到黑人所达到的象征性的平等水平。 Tokenism tk()nz()m p62 Please accept this gift as a small token of our gratitude.区区薄礼，略表谢意。 token n. 表征；代币；记号marks , sign adj. 象征的；表意的；symbolic , vt. 象征；代indicate , image , figure 10. “Why invest time and effort to build the girl up?” he asked me. p63 Why should we