P14
1. vocation: calling, profession, field, career, occupation,
job, trade
2. hardware: machinery used in war
P15
1. evade: get out of the way or escape from: avoid
(doing); dodge
2. hardware: weapons used in war
P16
1.
to run for office: to compete for an elective governmental
position
P17
1. empathy: the power and state of imagining oneself
to be another person
2. insight: penetration judgment; immediate cognition,
intuitiveness, clear understanding, perception, spontaneous
understanding, innate knowledge
3.
the qualities we naturally have…: the innate qualities
we have; Some of these problems are their innate qualities,
and some are developed by them because of the sex
discrimination.
4. Boycott: refuse to have social or business relations
with…
5.
Women have some fine qualities government officials
need most: Women have some qualities such as deep
understanding of other’s feelings and emotions, sympathy
(live-and–let–live attitude), penetrating judgment,
calm endurance (forbearance), great determination
and these qualities are the innate qualities of women,
but some are developed because of the sex discrimination.
Some of the reasons are:
a. American women have long been influenced by the
society and they are less aware of their roles as
secondary citizens than the blacks were.
b. (If their Party wins in an election) The men got
the (rewards) promotions, however, women in politics
get almost no money. This is always the fate for women
in politics – a kind of secondarily independent position,
but in fact, it was the same as before.
c. Because of sex discrimination, in the eyes of common
people, women are happy to be housewives and the blacks
satisfied with their social positions.
d. American women haven’t reached the minimal symbolic
level yet, while Blacks in America …
e. Women can bring good qualities to the country’s
leadership, such as deep-understanding, live-and–let-live
attitude, penetrating judgment, endurance and great
determination.
