Jennifer Aniston: women don't need men to be good moms

    BEIJING, Aug 9 (Xinhuanet) --Jennifer Aniston's new movie "The Switch" is coming up and so is her new point of being a mom.
    Aniston plays a 40-year-old woman who uses an anonymous¹ sperm² donor³ to get pregnant⁴, then finds out years later that her male best friend (Jason Bateman) switched out the anonymous sample with his own.
    "Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," Aniston, 41, said during the weekend.
    During a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Sunday, the actress defended (辩护)her character's leap into single motherhood by using a sperm donor, according to People Magazine reports.
    "Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long."Aniston said she still wants to be a mom. "Yeah, I have said it years before and I still say it today," she said when asked if she still wants to have a family.
    However, she is definately not going to use a turkey baster herself: "I don't have plans on that, no."（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

2 sperm   

n.精子，精液

参考例句：

• Only one sperm fertilises an egg.只有一个精子使卵子受精。
• In human reproduction,one female egg is usually fertilized by one sperm.在人体生殖过程中，一个精子使一个卵子受精。

3 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

4 pregnant   

adj.怀孕的，怀胎的

参考例句：

• She is a pregnant woman.她是一名孕妇。
• She is pregnant with her first child.她怀了第一胎。