CNN 2010-04-16
时间：2018-12-20 作者：英语课 分类：CNN2010年(四)月
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): Shaneika Lewis is counting the days until her high school graduation. It's a day that almost didn't happen. She fell in with the wrong crowd and considered dropping out.
SHANEIKA LEWIS, HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR: People were friends with me because they were scared of me. They were friends with me because they wanted to see something happen. I was somebody else's laugh. Any time they see me, they could easily know which buttons to push.
BALDWIN: Early in Shaneika's teen years she became a bully 1. It started with words, tormenting 3 her classmates verbally. When she got older, her aggression 4 turned violent, forcing her father to intervene two years ago.
LEWIS: Being a bully really was degrading. And I can see how those people feel, whoever I used to pick on, torment 2, how they felt. Because when I had that feeling, it lowered me as a person. I felt less than human.
BALDWIN: Shaneika's life changed after her dad brought her here, to Ladies of Favor. It's a faith-based, non-profit mentoring 6 program which helps young girls address issues like low self-esteem, bullying 7 and self respect.
GABRIELLE STARR, FOUNDER 8, LADIES OF FAVOR: As a teenager, I went through an array of things. I dealt with low self-esteem. I dealt with trying to find myself. And a lot of the issues that our young girls are facing, that was me.
BALDWIN: Shaneika sat with a mentor 5 once a week where they would discuss self confidence, character building and how to become a leader.
DR. NADINE KASLOW, EMORY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: There's lots of jealousy 9.
BALDWIN: Why do certain girls, like Shaneika, become bullies 10? Doctor Nadine Kaslow says it begins in a social setting when girls are trying to figure out who their friends are.
KASLOW: There's lots of competition. There's lots of sort of struggles to express their own identity. Girls often feel helpless and powerless. Being relationally aggressive is a way to try to assume power.
BALDWIN: Shaneika has faced her own struggles and now knows not to resort to violence to be popular.
LEWIS: If I wasn't in Ladies of Favor today, I could honestly say, I don't really know where I would be at right now.
STARR: Shaneika is a very, very bright young lady. She's very smart. She's very articulate. But it was just something on the inside that had been damaged and she was trying to find a way out.
BALDWIN: Ladies of Favor helped Shaneika address the issues she was facing. She would discover --
LEWIS: That I'm a phenomenal woman.
BALDWIN: Now she fights with a new weapon, self confidence, which has prepared her to face an important day, graduation.
- A bully is always a coward.暴汉常是懦夫。
- The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。
- He has never suffered the torment of rejection.他从未经受过遭人拒绝的痛苦。
- Now nothing aggravates me more than when people torment each other.没有什么东西比人们的互相折磨更使我愤怒。
- He took too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban. 他喜欢一味捉弄一个名叫凯列班的丑妖怪。
- The children were scolded for tormenting animals. 孩子们因折磨动物而受到责骂。
- So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结，就不必惧怕外来侵略。
- Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。
- He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
- He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。
- One of the most effective instruments for coaching and mentoring is the "role rehearsal" . 辅导和教学的最有效的手段之一是“角色排练。” 来自辞典例句
- Bell Canada called their mentoring system a buddy-buddy system. 加拿大贝尔公司称他们的训导系统是伙伴—伙伴系统。 来自互联网
- Many cases of bullying go unreported . 很多恐吓案件都没有人告发。
- All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with. 所有以大欺小的情况都将受到严肃处理。 来自《简明英汉词典》