时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:2010年VOA慢速英语(七)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


One job of an athletic 1 trainer is to treat injured athletes. But does it make a difference if the trainer is male or female?


Sometimes, yes , if an injury or condition is a "male problem" or a "female problem." Then athletes say they are more likely to want treatment by someone of their own sex.


But what about a problem that could affect either sex, like a dislocated shoulder? Researchers at North Carolina State University asked male football players at two American colleges.


The study found that those players would still probably choose a male trainer -- unless the injury made them feel depressed 2. Then they would most likely choose a female trainer.


The researchers offer two possible explanations. They say football players might be seen as "weak" if they talk about their depression with a male trainer. Also, over half the players described female trainers with words like "caring," "nurturing 3" and "affectionate."



A West Virginia basketball player is helped by an athletic trainer, right, and team manager after she injured her knee during a game in 2006


The researchers say this shows that "gender 4 stereotypes 5" have influenced the opinions of the players about women. They say the concern is that players might see the training room as not the place even for well-qualified women.


The study, led by Heidi Grappendorf, is in the Journal of Athletic Training.


Trainers are an important part of an athlete's life. But an organization based in California is working with coaches to help influence boys to show more respect toward girls and women.


Feroz Moideen is director of the Coaching Boys into Men program of the Family Violence Prevention Fund. He says the nonprofit organization works with police, judges, teachers and coaches. He says the group used a million-and-a-half-dollar donation from the Nike Foundation to expand the program to cricket players in India.


FEROZ MOIDEEN: "We tried to use the power of cricket coaches in that instance to reach young boys and, once again, to educate them about healthy relationships and to model healthy and respectful behavior toward women and girls."


Written materials are also being provided to other countries through UNICEF, the United Nations children's and educational agency.


Brian O'Connor of the Family Violence Prevention Fund says young men need guidelines in how to treat young women -- in person or online.


BRIAN O'CONNOR: "Talking about unwanted or excessive text messaging, or breaking into someone's Facebook account. We're calling this digital dating abuse, another form of abuse that has been really heightened now through technology."


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. You can find our reports online at voaspecialenglish.com and on Facebook and Twitter at VOA Learning English. I'm Jim Tedder

 



adj.擅长运动的,强健的;活跃的,体格健壮的
  • This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
  • He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
  • When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
  • His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
养育( nurture的现在分词 ); 培育; 滋长; 助长
  • These delicate plants need careful nurturing. 这些幼嫩的植物需要精心培育。
  • The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants. 这个现代化温室的环境不适合培育植物。
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • 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。
n.老套,模式化的见解,有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
  • Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
  • It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调,我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
account of exchequer
achyranthine
acl-deficient
active bias circuit
acute bleedingerosive gastritis
adenopathies
Alexanderite Lasers
alpine goldenrod
american society mechanical engineers
amplitude-modulation communication system
arabness
bastinite (hureaulite)
be sadly mistaken
beps
beryllium ethide
BNOC
body-snatchers
camshaft gear and servomotor
chondrogenic zone
clavie
Clitorido
congenital microphthalmus
Cripps Corner
datively
decidabe subclass
dendrium
dinelli
Discovery Sound
Disraeli, Benjamin
DMC (digital microcircuit)
do the agreeable
e-knee
economic indices of hydropower station
encite
export market development programme
Faddoi
field emission electron image
finger wear
glacial retreat
gm-cfc
Goyaesque
Gånghester
hemp canvas
in-plane vibration
inspection of accounts
kebob
Kevin Mitnick
lammiela
linfante
lobotomization
lockedseam
long haul fare
mannoheptitol
mechanostable
momentary gods
mosaic soil
motor vehicle accident
move apart
National Television Standards Committee
np product
occluded gas
open end roll
overflow check program
P-V state
Pangutaran
parakaliella venusta
partial polarized light
port administration
positional operators
primary dermal leishmaniasis
principal program path
raise the hoof
reales
receiving notice
reflecting element
ring traveller
Roman blind
rotor motor
runs by
scare the hell out of
self guidance
Software Modeling
solid state software
spawn kills
spooled input processing
Stewart, Mt.
stricture of common bile duct
subnasal points
take out after
telepalhine
temperature error
Terpieol
Thompson machine
timberjack
times have changed
total reproduction rate
unrefuted
value on exchange
white glove test
wurtewale
yoks
zazzy