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外刊逐句精读06 | 《经济学人》| 沉默之伤:性问题困扰人们的生活,但解决办法

2022-12-11 00:04 作者:爱睡懒觉的Nick船长  | 我要投稿

The wounds of silence-sexual problems can wreck people's lives

Related words:

  1. stigma 耻辱,(尤其指不公正的)恶名 e.g. There is no longer any stigma to being divorced.
  2. unwanted pregnancy 意外怀孕
  3. alleviate = metigate =relieve v 缓解,减轻
  4. shed v 驱除,摆脱 E.g. I'm going on a diet to see if I can shed (= become thinner by losing) a few pounds.
  5. ecstatic adj 狂喜的 E.g. The new president was greeted by an ecstatic crowd.
  6. agreeable = pleasant adj 令人愉悦的 E.g. We spent a most agreeable evening by the river.

Vocabulary:

  1. nip things in the bud 防患于未然 E.g. Early treatment often nips thing in the bud.
  2. let alone 更不必说(用于否定句表强调) E.g. Some people never even read a newspaper, let alone a book.
  3. turn a blind eye to sth 视而不见 E.g. Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.
  4. dysfunctional adj 失调的,不正常的 E.g. a dysfunctional family
  5. triviality n 琐碎的事 E.g. I'm a busy man - don't bother me with trivialities.
  6. harbinger 预兆(一般指不好事情) E.g. a harbinger of doom
  7. both a cause and a consequence 既是原因又是结果
  8. tackle = address=solve=deal with= cope with
  9. downside 缺点;upside 优点
  10. adolescence 青年时期 adolescent 青年人
  11. scant = rare adj 几乎没有的 E.g. bears scant relation to real life.
  12. civil servant 公务员

Nice sentence:

  1. A generation ago, being depressed or anxious-let alone having serious mental-health problems-meant suffering mostly in silence. Stigma meant few people wanted to talk. Doctors turned a blind eye. Most saw mental illness as regrettable but not something that made much difference to a patient's physical health. These days, the stigma has faded, if not entirely disappeared. Early treatment often nips things in the bud.
  2. Critics may object that sex is everywhere in modern culture, and the last thing anyone needs is more of it. But this misses the point.
  3. Sexual problems should be a core part of medical education. Only then will doctors begin to discuss them routinely-as they do with heart disease and other health-related matters. A lot of suffering can be alleviated by simply giving people frank information about what is happening to them and why. Additionally, a few sessions of therapy which patients need are now packaged in apps.

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