国家地理 女性安全的权利(4)

The first stages of work are under way: In Delhi police now offer free 10-day self-defense programs for women, and they've fanned out through the city to give "doorstep training" to larger groups. In the southern state of Kerala, all-female police units, the Pink Police, have been assembled to patrol the streets and respond to crisis calls from women.

第一阶段的工作已经展开：德里警方如今为女性提供为期十天的免费自卫培训，并且前往城市各处为更广大的人群提供“上门培训”。南部的喀拉拉邦组建了全部由女警构成的“粉色警队”，她们在街头巡逻，并响应女性打来的报警电话采取行动。

Pink is the designated color for most of the women-only services in the urban public transportation sector¹. Pink motor rickshaws are for female passengers; the drivers were all supposed to be women, but because of a lack of female drivers, now men too can drive these rickshaws after they receive security clearances² by police. Metro³ trains now include separate coaches for women. At transit⁴ station security checks, women stand in their own lines, protected from men who might deliberately⁵ press in too close.

都市公共交通部门通常用粉色标识女性专属的服务设施。粉色的三轮摩托车仅供女性搭乘，驾驶员本来都应该是女性，但由于缺乏女性司机，现在男性也可以在得到警察的安全许可后驾驶这些三轮摩托车。地铁上现在设有女性专属车厢。在换乘站进行安检时，女性单独排队，不会受到故意挤得太近的男性侵犯。

I confess to a certain ambivalence⁶ about all this. Government-arranged gender⁷ segregation⁸? Is this the only way to begin making women as comfortable as men in public spaces? But then I see the hashtag campaigns of Indian women too, and am cheered: #TakeBackTheNight, a global effort that banded audacious women in India to walk outside together after dark. #MeetToSleep, which organized 600 women across the country last year to safely spend a night sleeping outdoors, as Indian men often like to do.

我承认，对于这一切，我的内心有些矛盾。政府安排的性别隔离？这是让女性能够在公共场所像男性一样自在行动的唯一方法吗？但之后我又看见印度女性打出的活动口号标签，因而感到欣慰：“夺回黑夜”是一场全球范围的活动，将勇敢的印度女性联合起来，在夜里一起外出。“睡眠集会”活动去年在全国组织了六百名女性，安全地在户外度过一晚，就像印度男性常常喜欢做的那样。

1 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

2 clearances   

清除( clearance的名词复数 )； 许可； （录用或准许接触机密以前的）审查许可； 净空

参考例句：

• But I can't get to him without clearances. 但是没有证明我就没法见到他。
• The bridge and the top of the bus was only ten clearances. 桥与公共汽车车顶之间的间隙只有十厘米。

3 metro   

n.地铁；adj.大都市的；(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国，主要经营零售)

参考例句：

• Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗？
• The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。

4 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

5 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

6 ambivalence   

n.矛盾心理

参考例句：

• She viewed her daughter's education with ambivalence.她看待女儿的教育问题态度矛盾。
• She felt a certain ambivalence towards him.她对他的态度有些矛盾。

7 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。

8 segregation   

n.隔离，种族隔离

参考例句：

• Many school boards found segregation a hot potato in the early 1960s.在60年代初，许多学校部门都觉得按水平分班是一个棘手的问题。
• They were tired to death of segregation and of being kicked around.他们十分厌恶种族隔离和总是被人踢来踢去。