英文早点丨0204 - 知否知否，新年归途记得带上男友

2018年中国人口总数已达到13.9008亿，直逼14亿。随着中国人口不断地增长，如今，摆在众多年轻人面前的问题不仅仅是买车买房，还有单身。“剩女”在中国，似乎是一个被各种偏见裹挟的标签：外表光鲜，却内心空虚；事业有成，却生活苦闷；恨嫁心切，却挑三拣四。

Every tragedy makes heroes of common people.----Norman Stephens

Spare a thought for the single Chinese woman this Lunar New Year holiday. The remonstrations over their unwed status and the pressure on them to get married are so intense that some of these “leftover women” — the name for women not married by their late 20s — are searching for ways to avoid this family badgering.

Women are considered “leftover” in many parts of Asia if they haven’t married by their mid-20s. But China’s economic gains over the past few decades and the creation of a huge middle class have led many women to pursue careers instead of getting married early. Or at all.

Despite the fact that there are about 33 million more men than women in China, the result of a preference for boys exacerbated by the one-child policy, it is the women who are considered “leftover” rather than the men.

文本选自 ：The Washington Post（华盛顿邮报）

作者 ：Anna Fifield

原文标题 ： For ‘leftover’ single women in China, the Lunar New Year brings dread of returning home alone

原文发布时间 ： 30 Jan. 2019

remonstration

英 [ˌri:mɒn'streɪʃən]     美 [ˌri:mɒn'streɪʃən]

• n. 抗议，规劝

intense

英 [ɪnˈtens]     美 [ɪnˈtɛns]

• adj. 热情的，强烈的，紧张的;热烈的，热情的，认真的;[摄]（底片）明暗度强的;有强烈感情（或意见、想法）的

badger

英 [ˈbædʒə(r)]      美 [ˈbædʒɚ]

• n. 獾;獾皮;（大写）獾州人（美国威斯康星州人的别称）;毛鼻袋熊

• vt. 烦扰;纠缠不休;吵着要

exacerbate

英 [ɪgˈzæsəbeɪt]     美 [ɪgˈzæsərbeɪt]

• vt. 激怒;使恶化;使加重

早起卡 ☞ 每场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。----斯蒂芬斯

翻译卡 ☞ 金猪已经冲刺在农历新年的跑道上了，咱们来替中国的大龄单身女娃们考虑考虑。一些剩女们（那些三十岁前还没结婚的女性）由于家人对自己未婚状态的强烈抗议和在家人咄咄逼婚的重重压力下，在苦苦寻求远离困扰的办法。