向前一步:第202期 让我们开始讨论吧(8)

 Fortunately, I had company. 所幸我还有公司的支持。

In 2005, my colleagues Susan Wojcicki and Marissa Mayer and I all noticed that the speakers who visited the Google campus were fascinating, notable, and almost always male. 2005年，我与同事苏珊·沃西基和玛丽萨·迈耶发现，来谷歌工作园的访客们都是很有魅力的名人，而且大多数都是男性。

In response, we founded Women@Google and kicked off the new series with luminaries¹ Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, who were launching the Women's Media Center. 作为回应，我们创立了“谷歌女性频道”。此时，才华横溢的格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆、简·方达正准备组建女性媒体中心，我们合作开展了一系列新活动。

As a former aerobics² instructor³, I was excited to meet Jane Fonda — and sucked in my stomach the whole time. 当我见到著名的前健美操教练简·方达时相当兴奋，期间我一直保持着收腹状态。

From what I knew about the women's rights movement, I expected Gloria Steinem to be formidable and brilliant, which she was. 就我对女权运动的了解，我猜想格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆将会很有锋芒，事实证明的确如此。

But she was also charming and funny and warm — the absolute opposite of my childish image of the humorless feminist⁴. 同时，她也非常有魅力，风趣幽默又待人温和，与我童年记忆里那种冷冰冰的女权主义者的形象完全不同。

After the Women@Google event, Gloria invited me to speak at the Women's Media Center in New York. I said yes without hesitating. 在创办了“谷歌女性频道”之后，格洛丽亚邀请我去纽约的女性媒体中心演讲，我毫不犹豫地答应了。

The day before the talk, I headed to the airport with Kim Malone Scott, who ran the Google publishing teams. 在演讲前一天，我和负责谷歌出版团队的金·梅隆·斯科特一起去机场。

Kim is an experienced writer, so I figured she would help me craft a speech during the long flight. 斯科特是位经验丰富的作家，所以我想请她在这趟长途旅行中帮我起草演讲稿。

By the time I got through all of my backlogged⁵ e-mails, it was almost midnight. 在我处理完一大堆邮件时，已经差不多半夜了。

I turned to Kim for help and saw that she had fallen asleep. 正想要跟斯科特说讲稿的事情时，她已经睡着了。

Long before Facebook made it popular, I thought about giving her a poke⁶. But I couldn't bear to wake her up. 早在脸谱网大肆流行“谁睡就戳醒谁”之前，我已经在考虑给她一戳了，但我还是不忍心把她弄醒。

 

1 luminaries   

n.杰出人物，名人（luminary的复数形式）

参考例句：

• In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. 亚14:6那日、必没有光．三光必退缩。 来自互联网
• Includes household filament light bulbs & luminaries. 包括家用的白炙灯泡和光源。 来自互联网

2 aerobics   

n.健身操，健美操，韵律操

参考例句：

• Doing aerobics is a good way to improve one's health.做有氧健身操是改善健康状况的一个好方法。
• Aren't you going to the aerobics class this morning?今天上午你不是去上有氧运动课吗？

3 instructor   

n.指导者，教员，教练

参考例句：

• The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
• The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。

4 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

5 backlogged   

（使）积压( backlog的过去式和过去分词 )； 储存； （为日后装运而）登账确认（订货）

参考例句：

6 poke   

n.刺，戳，袋；vt.拨开，刺，戳；vi.戳，刺，捅，搜索，伸出，行动散慢

参考例句：

• We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
• Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。