時尚雙語:職場女性不爲人知的32個祕密
【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，並且只有在你能聽到時才哭。
n especially love a bargain.
女人特別喜歡便宜貨。
n love to shop. It is the only area of the world where they feel like they're actually in control.
女人喜歡購物，她們覺得那是她們在這個世界上能控制的惟一領域。
n will always ask questions that have no center answers,in an effort to trap you in feeling guilty.
女人總是問一些沒有正確答案的問題，她們想使你有犯罪感。
n love to talk. Silence intimidates them and they feel an eed to fill it, even if they have nothing to say.
女人喜歡交談。沉默使她們不安，她們需要用交談打破沉默，即使她們沒什麼可說的。
n need to feel like there are people worse off than they are.
女人需要感覺到別人不如她們。
n hate bugs. Even the strong-willed ones need a man around when there's a spider or a wasp involved.
女人討厭蟲子。當看到一隻蜘蛛或黃蜂時，即使意志力很強的女人也需要一個男人在身旁。
n can't keep secrets.
女人不能保守祕密。
n always go to public rest rooms in groups. It gives them a chance to gossip.
女人經常結伴去公共衛生間，這是她們閒談的好機會。
n can't refuse to answer a ringing phone, no matter whats she's doing.
女人不會拒絕接聽任何來電。電話鈴一響，不論正在做什麼，她都會去接電話。
n never understand why men love toys. Men understand that they wouldn't need toys if women had an"on/off"switch.
女人永遠不會明白男人爲什麼喜歡玩具。男人認爲，如果女人有開關，他們就不再需要玩具了。
n think all beer is the same.
女人覺得所有品牌的啤酒都是一個味兒。
n keep three different shampoos in the shower. After a woman showers, the bathroom will smell like a tropical rainforest.
通常，女人的浴室裏總放着3種不同的洗髮香波。她們沐浴後，浴室就散發着熱帶雨林的味道。
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.
女人不能領略體育節目的魅力。男人從那些能讓他們逃離現實的東西中尋找娛樂，女人則從那些能提醒她們現實有多糟糕的東西中尋找娛樂。
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.
如果一個男人要出門7天，他會帶夠5天穿的衣服，並且會將一些衣物穿兩次。如果一個女人要出門7天，她會帶夠21天穿的衣服，因爲她不知道自己每天喜歡穿什麼。
n brush their hair before bed.
女人在睡覺前梳頭。
n are paid less than men, except for one field: Modeling.
女人的薪水比男人低，只有一個行業例外———模特。
n are never wrong. Apologizing is the man's responsibility.
女人永遠不會犯錯。道歉是男人的責任。
n do not know anything about cars, even if they drive car themselves.
女人對汽車一無所知，即使她們自己開車。
n have better rest rooms. They get the nice chairs and red carpet.
女人的衛生間很講究，那裏有精緻的椅子和紅地毯。
n love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.
女人喜歡貓。男人說他們喜歡貓，但當女人看不見的時候，他們就會踢貓。
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.
女人喜歡煲電話粥。一個女人去看她的女朋友，她們一起生活了兩個星期，她剛剛回家便會給這個女朋友打電話，她們會聊上3個小時。
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.
女人做什麼事之前都會化妝——購物、給植物澆水、倒垃圾、接電話、讀書、收郵件。
n do NOT want an honest answer to the question,"How do I look?"
在這個問題上女人不想得到誠實的答案——“我看上去怎麼樣？”
25."Oh, nothing."has an entirely different meaning in woman-language than it does in man-language.
“哦,沒什麼。”這句話在女人的字典裏的意思和在男人字典裏的完全不同。
women will say that they are overweight, but don't agree with them about it.
所有女人都會說自己超重,但千萬別對此表示贊同。
women understand the need for"guest towels"and the"good china".
只有女人知道爲什麼“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.
女人要求享有與男人同樣的權利，但你幾乎聽不到她們吵嚷着要求承擔和男人同樣的責任。
n can get out of speeding tickets by pouting. This will get men arrested.
面對超速行駛的罰單，噘嘴可以使女人免於處罰，卻會使男人被拘留。
n don't really care about a sense of humor in a guy despite claims to the contrary.
女人並不真的在乎男人是否有幽默感，儘管她們聲稱幽默感很重要。
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.
女人在出門前將花費數小時化妝，然後她們出門，花更多時間注視其他女人。男人永遠不會察覺女人注視着其他男人，而女人總能察覺男人注視着其他女人。
most embarrassing thing for women is to find another woman wearing the same dress at a formal party.
最讓女人尷尬的，就是在一個正式的聚會上發現另一個女人穿着和自己同樣的衣服。
【詞彙講解】
1. intimidate vt. 恐嚇，威脅
The gang tried to intimidate the bank manager.
那幫歹徒企圖恐嚇銀行經理。
2. spider n. 蜘蛛
A spider spins a web in which it catches insects and bugs for its food.
蜘蛛結網, 用於捕捉各種昆蟲。
3. wasp n.黃蜂；胡蜂
There's a wasps' nest in that old tree.
那棵老樹上有一個黃蜂巢。
4. clamor n.喧鬧，叫嚷，大聲的要求；v.喧嚷，大聲要求
Script? writers will also be in high demand, as mouse potatoes clamor for new story lines to escape from their droned? out existence.
編劇人員因此也將大大增加，因爲點擊鼠標者爲逃避無聊生活而大聲叫嚷需要新的劇本。
5. pout vt. & vi.撅(嘴)n.撅嘴的面部表情
She looked at her lover with a pretentious pout.
她看着戀人，故作不悅地撅着嘴。
【語法和句型】
1. Women need to feel like there are people worse off than they are.
女人需要感覺到別人不如她們。
worse off 作形容詞表示“惡化，情況更壞”，例如：
He has lost his job and is worse off than ever.
他失掉了差事，經濟情況比以前更糟。
2. Women always go to public rest rooms in groups.
女人經常結伴去公共衛生間。
in groups表示“成羣的；按組的”，例如：
Do you teach your students singly or in groups?
你教學生是個別地教還是按組教？
