时尚双语:职场女性不为人知的32个秘密

【原文】

n need to cry, and they won't do it alone unless they know you can hear them.

女人需要哭泣，并且只有在你能听到时才哭。

n especially love a bargain.

女人特别喜欢便宜货。

n love to shop. It is the only area of the world where they feel like they're actually in control.

女人喜欢购物，她们觉得那是她们在这个世界上能控制的惟一领域。

n will always ask questions that have no center answers,in an effort to trap you in feeling guilty.

女人总是问一些没有正确答案的问题，她们想使你有犯罪感。

n love to talk. Silence intimidates them and they feel an eed to fill it, even if they have nothing to say.

女人喜欢交谈。沉默使她们不安，她们需要用交谈打破沉默，即使她们没什么可说的。

n need to feel like there are people worse off than they are.

女人需要感觉到别人不如她们。

n hate bugs. Even the strong-willed ones need a man around when there's a spider or a wasp involved.

女人讨厌虫子。当看到一只蜘蛛或黄蜂时，即使意志力很强的女人也需要一个男人在身旁。

n can't keep secrets.

女人不能保守秘密。

n always go to public rest rooms in groups. It gives them a chance to gossip.

女人经常结伴去公共卫生间，这是她们闲谈的好机会。

n can't refuse to answer a ringing phone, no matter whats she's doing.

女人不会拒绝接听任何来电。电话铃一响，不论正在做什么，她都会去接电话。

n never understand why men love toys. Men understand that they wouldn't need toys if women had an"on/off"switch.

女人永远不会明白男人为什么喜欢玩具。男人认为，如果女人有开关，他们就不再需要玩具了。

n think all beer is the same.

女人觉得所有品牌的啤酒都是一个味儿。

n keep three different shampoos in the shower. After a woman showers, the bathroom will smell like a tropical rainforest.

通常，女人的浴室里总放着3种不同的洗发香波。她们沐浴后，浴室就散发着热带雨林的味道。

n don't understand the appeal of sports. Men seek entertainment that allows them to escape reality. Women seek entertainment that reminds them of how horrible things could be.

女人不能领略体育节目的魅力。男人从那些能让他们逃离现实的东西中寻找娱乐，女人则从那些能提醒她们现实有多糟糕的东西中寻找娱乐。

15. If a man goes on a seven-day trip, he'll pack five days worth of clothes and will wear some things twice; if a woman goes on a seven-day trip she'll pack 21 outfits because she doesn't know what she'll feel like wearing each day.

如果一个男人要出门7天，他会带够5天穿的衣服，并且会将一些衣物穿两次。如果一个女人要出门7天，她会带够21天穿的衣服，因为她不知道自己每天喜欢穿什么。

n brush their hair before bed.

女人在睡觉前梳头。

n are paid less than men, except for one field: Modeling.

女人的薪水比男人低，只有一个行业例外———模特。

n are never wrong. Apologizing is the man's responsibility.

女人永远不会犯错。道歉是男人的责任。

n do not know anything about cars, even if they drive car themselves.

女人对汽车一无所知，即使她们自己开车。

n have better rest rooms. They get the nice chairs and red carpet.

女人的卫生间很讲究，那里有精致的椅子和红地毯。

n love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

女人喜欢猫。男人说他们喜欢猫，但当女人看不见的时候，他们就会踢猫。

n love to talk on the phone. A woman can visit her girlfriend for two weeks, and upon returning home, she will call the same friend and they will talk for three hours.

女人喜欢煲电话粥。一个女人去看她的女朋友，她们一起生活了两个星期，她刚刚回家便会给这个女朋友打电话，她们会聊上3个小时。

23. A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants,empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, or get the mail.

女人做什么事之前都会化妆——购物、给植物浇水、倒垃圾、接电话、读书、收邮件。

n do NOT want an honest answer to the question,"How do I look?"

在这个问题上女人不想得到诚实的答案——“我看上去怎么样？”

25."Oh, nothing."has an entirely different meaning in woman-language than it does in man-language.

“哦,没什么。”这句话在女人的字典里的意思和在男人字典里的完全不同。

women will say that they are overweight, but don't agree with them about it.

所有女人都会说自己超重,但千万别对此表示赞同。

women understand the need for"guest towels"and the"good china".

只有女人知道为什么“客用毛巾”和“好瓷器”是必要的。

n want equal centers, but you rarely hear them clamoring to cover the responsibilities that go with those centers.

女人要求享有与男人同样的权利，但你几乎听不到她们吵嚷着要求承担和男人同样的责任。

n can get out of speeding tickets by pouting. This will get men arrested.

面对超速行驶的罚单，噘嘴可以使女人免于处罚，却会使男人被拘留。

n don't really care about a sense of humor in a guy despite claims to the contrary.

女人并不真的在乎男人是否有幽默感，尽管她们声称幽默感很重要。

n will spend hours dressing up to go out, and then they'll go out and spend more time checking out other women. Men can never catch women checking out other men; women will always catch men checking out other women.

女人在出门前将花费数小时化妆，然后她们出门，花更多时间注视其他女人。男人永远不会察觉女人注视着其他男人，而女人总能察觉男人注视着其他女人。

most embarrassing thing for women is to find another woman wearing the same dress at a formal party.

最让女人尴尬的，就是在一个正式的聚会上发现另一个女人穿着和自己同样的衣服。　

【词汇讲解】

1. intimidate vt. 恐吓，威胁

The gang tried to intimidate the bank manager.
那帮歹徒企图恐吓银行经理。

2. spider n. 蜘蛛

A spider spins a web in which it catches insects and bugs for its food.
蜘蛛结网, 用于捕捉各种昆虫。

3. wasp n.黄蜂；胡蜂

There's a wasps' nest in that old tree.
那棵老树上有一个黄蜂巢。

4. clamor n.喧闹，叫嚷，大声的要求；v.喧嚷，大声要求

Script? writers will also be in high demand, as mouse potatoes clamor for new story lines to escape from their droned? out existence.
编剧人员因此也将大大增加，因为点击鼠标者为逃避无聊生活而大声叫嚷需要新的剧本。

5. pout vt. & vi.撅(嘴)n.撅嘴的面部表情

She looked at her lover with a pretentious pout.
她看着恋人，故作不悦地撅着嘴。

【语法和句型】

1. Women need to feel like there are people worse off than they are.
女人需要感觉到别人不如她们。

worse off 作形容词表示“恶化，情况更坏”，例如：

He has lost his job and is worse off than ever.
他失掉了差事，经济情况比以前更糟。

2. Women always go to public rest rooms in groups.
女人经常结伴去公共卫生间。

in groups表示“成群的；按组的”，例如：

Do you teach your students singly or in groups?
你教学生是个别地教还是按组教？