美国国家公共电台 NPR With New Law, Illinois Stylists Join The Fight Against Domestic Violence-英语课

时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

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The relationship between a hairdresser and his or her clients can be an intimate one. Sometimes the conversation gets personal. And some stylists are used to seeing signs that their clients have been victims of abuse. There's a new law in Illinois that recognizes that unique relationship, and it now requires hairstylists and nail technicians to go through training about domestic violence as part of their licensing 1. Here's NPR's Maggie Penman.

MAGGIE PENMAN, BYLINE 2: It's a classic scene. You see it in movies and on TV, women chatting with their hairstylist, talking about their love lives or problems at work just like they're talking to an old friend. This new Illinois law wants to use those intimate relationships to get victims of domestic violence help.

JOAN ROWAN: It is an intimate relationship, and it's a wonderful relationship.

PENMAN: Joan Rowan has been a hairstylist for decades. She owns two salons 4 - one in Oak Lawn, Ill., and the other on the South Side of Chicago. She says she started putting pamphlets in the salon 3 bathrooms with information and resources like the numbers for domestic violence hotlines.

ROWAN: I've had women - you know, when you're washing their head, they have lumps on their head, or you know, they ran into a door again. I've been a hairdresser for 41 years. One in three women have violence in their lives.

PENMAN: She's citing a statistic 5 used by many domestic violence advocacy groups, including one called Chicago Says No More. This is the group that's designing the one-hour training for stylists. Kristie Paskvan is the founder 6 of that organization. She says she knows an hour-long training won't make anyone an expert or a therapist. The aim is just to educate the stylists and give them the tools to refer clients to resources that can help.

KRISTIE PASKVAN: There's something like 88,000 salon professionals that will be trained in the next two years. That's 88,000 more individuals that'll be able to have conversations with family and friends and clients, and that raises awareness 7.

PENMAN: Salon professionals won't be required to intervene or held liable if they don't. Lawmakers hope to just get a little more information out there, even if it's just over a manicure. Maggie Penman, NPR News, Washington.

1 licensing

v.批准，许可，颁发执照( license的现在分词 )

A large part of state regulation consists of occupational licensing. 大部分州的管理涉及行业的特许批准。来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
That licensing procedures for projects would move faster. 这样的工程批准程序一定会加快。来自辞典例句

2 byline

n.署名；v.署名

His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 salon

n.[法]沙龙；客厅；营业性的高级服务室

Do you go to the hairdresser or beauty salon more than twice a week?你每周去美容院或美容沙龙多过两次吗？
You can hear a lot of dirt at a salon.你在沙龙上会听到很多流言蜚语。

4 salons

n.（营业性质的）店( salon的名词复数 )；厅；沙龙（旧时在上流社会女主人家的例行聚会或聚会场所）；（大宅中的）客厅