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小朋友认为女圣诞老人不能胜任工作

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2015-12-24 06:19 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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What if Santa was a woman - could she do the job? That's the question an advertising¹ agency posed.

假如圣诞老人是个女的，她能胜任这个工作吗？近日，一家广告公司抛出了这个问题。

The answer, according to the four to ten-year-olds they asked, was a resounding² 'No'.

Faced with this light-hearted Christmas quiz, the little ones wilted³ under the pressure of predictable gender⁴ stereotypes⁵.

One boy claimed a lady Santa wouldn't be strong enough to carry the sack ('She would need to go to the gym first'); another said she would 'get lost in the sky'.

A little girl said Mrs Claus wouldn't be able to wrap the presents because her baby would get in the way and, more worryingly, one claimed a woman would fail because she would 'just get a headache'.

The one comment that could make women cross, though, was the child who reckoned a woman Santa would be good at 'bossing around the elves'.

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1 advertising
n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的
参考例句：
Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗? The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

2 resounding
adj. 响亮的
参考例句：
The astronaut was welcomed with joyous,resounding acclaim. 人们欢声雷动地迎接那位宇航员。 He hit the water with a resounding slap. 他啪的一声拍了一下水。

3 wilted
（使）凋谢，枯萎( wilt的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
The flowers wilted in the hot sun. 花在烈日下枯萎了。 The romance blossomed for six or seven months, and then wilted. 那罗曼史持续六七个月之后就告吹了。

4 gender
n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性
参考例句：
French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。 Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

5 stereotypes
n.老套，模式化的见解，有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化，使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。 It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

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