Professions for Women 课后练习

Assignments

Assignments

2012.09.21

I. Vocabulary 1. stage: the theater, drama, or acting as a profession; 2. reputable: have a good reputation; 3. phantom: a ghost, sth. has no physical existence; an

illusion, a mental image; 4. angel: a messenger of God or a supernatural being; a person regarded as beautiful, good, innocent; 5. draught: a current of air in a room; draft (AE) 6. art: sly, cunning tricks;

7. credit: approval for an act, ability, or quality;

praise; 8. proceeds: the money or profit derived from a sale, business venture; 9. to induce: to cause a particular physical condition; 10. to nose: to look closely and inquisitively 11. trance: a state in which you behave as if you were asleep but are still able to hear and understand what is said to you, similar to the unconscious state; 12: nominally: not actually, appear to be;

V. Explain the following in your own words, bring out any implies meanings: 1. If you want to be a musician or a painter, you must own a

piano or hire models, and you have to visit or even live in cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you don’t need all this. 2. Those conventional attitudes would have taken away the most important part of my writing, the essence of my writing. 3.Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back with all my power.

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It was a sensible thing for men to give themselves great freedom to talk about the body and their passions. But if women want to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely severe condemnation of such freedom in women. 5. It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about their body and passions.

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Even when the path is open to women in name only, when outwardly there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, inwardly there are still false ideas and obstacles impeding a woman’s progress. 7. (Through fighting against the Angel in the House, through great labor and effort,) you have gained a position or certain freedom in a society that has been up to now dominated by men.

VI. Translation 1.指导我向前走 2. 家庭财力/经济 3. 扼住她的喉咙 4. 在无意识的最深层 5. 不用修辞手段、直截了当地说 6. 男性极端的因循守旧 7. 以什么为条件/在什么样的条件下

VI. Translation 1.就是她，在我写评论时，总是在我和我的写作 之间制造麻烦。 2. 下面我要说说多少是我自己决定做的一件事情， 当然做此事的功劳主要还应归功于我的了不起的 祖先，是他们给我留下了一笔财产——比如说每 年五百

英镑吧——这样我就不必完全靠女人的魅 力去谋生了。 3. 我相信，只有妇女在人类知识所设计的全部艺 术和专业领域中用创造形式表达自己的情感后， 她们才能知道什么是妇女。

4. 他希望在他写作时，他每天见的人，读的书， 做的事都是相同的，这样任何事物都不会打破他 生活的幻想，也不会搅乱他的四处探求以及对那 令人难以捉摸的东西——想象力的突然发现。 5. 尽管如此，我请你想象我在迷睡的状态中写小 说。 6. 她意识到男人们会如何议论一个敢讲有关激情 真话的女人，这使她从艺术家的无意识状态中惊 醒了。

7. 从内心精神方面看，情况颇为不同。妇女还要与

许多鬼怪展开斗争，还有许多偏见需要去克服。 8. 议论和界定这些障碍是十分重要的， 因为只有 如此我们才能共同努力克服困难。 9. 那些目的是什么，对这个问题我们不能想当然， 而要不断地提出疑问和进行审视。

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