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:
- stigma 耻辱,(尤其指不公正的)恶名 e.g. There is no longer any stigma to being divorced.
- unwanted pregnancy 意外怀孕
- alleviate = metigate =relieve v 缓解,减轻
- 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.
- ecstatic adj 狂喜的 E.g. The new president was greeted by an ecstatic crowd.
- agreeable = pleasant adj 令人愉悦的 E.g. We spent a most agreeable evening by the river.
Vocabulary:
- nip things in the bud 防患于未然 E.g. Early treatment often nips thing in the bud.
- 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.
- turn a blind eye to sth 视而不见 E.g. Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.
- dysfunctional adj 失调的,不正常的 E.g. a dysfunctional family
- triviality n 琐碎的事 E.g. I'm a busy man - don't bother me with trivialities.
- harbinger 预兆(一般指不好事情) E.g. a harbinger of doom
- both a cause and a consequence 既是原因又是结果
- tackle = address=solve=deal with= cope with
- downside 缺点;upside 优点
- adolescence 青年时期 adolescent 青年人
- scant = rare adj 几乎没有的 E.g. bears scant relation to real life.
- civil servant 公务员
Nice sentence:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.