留美老师带你每日说英文 第891期:跨性别者的心理状态
时间：2019-02-22 作者：英语课 分类：留美老师带你每日说英文
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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是：
As her gender 1 non-conformity intensified 2, we started to notice some stress around things like being grouped with boys at school or in activities. So, by the time she was seven, all of this kind of hit a crisis point and her anxiety was crippling, and her depression was becoming life threatening.
随着她对自己生理性别的不认同度越发强烈，我们发现她会因为在学校或参与活动时，被分到和男生一组而感到有些压力。所以，到了她七岁的时候，这一切几乎是恶化到了一个临界点，她的焦虑严重影响到她的生活，她的忧郁状况更是威胁到她的生命。
跨性别者的心理状态
学习重点：
1.gender 社会性别
gender (n.) 社会性别
transgender (n.) 跨性别
sex (n.) 生理性别
homosexual (n.) 同性恋
heterosexual (n.) 异性恋
2.intensify 3 加强、强化
intensify (v.) 加强、强化
intense (adj.) 强烈的、激烈的
intensive (adj.) 密集的
intensity 4 (n.) 强度、强烈
3.anxiety 焦虑
anxiety (n.) 焦虑
anxious (adj.) 焦虑的、挂念的
apprehensive 5 (adj.) 忧虑的、恐惧的
comprehensive (adj.) 广泛的、综合的
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。
v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )
- Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
- The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vt.加强；变强；加剧
- We must intensify our educational work among our own troops.我们必须加强自己部队的教育工作。
- They were ordered to intensify their patrols to protect our air space.他们奉命加强巡逻，保卫我国的领空。
n.强烈，剧烈；强度；烈度
- I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。
- The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。
adj.担心的，恐惧的，善于领会的
- She was deeply apprehensive about her future.她对未来感到非常担心。
- He was rather apprehensive of failure.他相当害怕失败。
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