1. Women spend their lives accepting the idea that to be beautiful one must be young, and only beauty saves one from being discarded. 女人毕其一生接受了这个观点,那就是要想漂亮就得年青,只有漂亮才不致被弃。
2. Women's survival, both physical and psychological, has been linked to their ability to please men. 女人的生存,不论是生理的还是心理的,都与其取悦于男人的能力有关。
3. We have systematically looked down on old women, kept them out of productive life, judged them primarily in terms of failing capacities and functions, and then found them pitiful. 我们一贯从各方面瞧不起老年妇女,不让她们参加生产活动,主要从其日渐衰落的能力和作用上去评价她们,还要说她们很可怜。
4. We have put old women in nursing "homes" with absolutely no intellectual stimulation, isolated from human warmth and contact, and then condemned them for losing their mental abilities. 我们把老年妇女送进养老之"家",那儿没有丝毫促进思考动脑的活动,远离人间的温暖和交往,然后指责她们丧失了思维能力。
5. We have disrespected and disregarded old women, and then dismissed them as uninteresting. 我们不尊重老年妇女,漠视她们,然后说她们乏味而排斥她们。
6. We have made old women invisible so that we do not have to confront our society's myths about what makes life valuable or dying painful. 我们使老年妇女退出社会,销声匿迹,这样我们就不用面对这个社会里关于何以使生命如此宝贵,死亡如此痛苦的问题了。
7. What is awful is how society treats old women and their problems. 可怕的是社会对待老年妇女和她们遇到的各种问题的方式。
8. The large group of enlightened young men and women are potential leaders. 这一大群有知识的男女青年是潜在的领导人.
9. The next race was the women´s relay race , and it promised to be an exciting one. 下一个赛跑项目是女子接力赛,看来将是一场激动人心的比赛。
10. The only specification was that the women should be unemployed in the mine. 唯一具体的规定是矿上不得雇用妇女。