Day 11

英文重現(xiàn)

Current feminist theory, in validating women's own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of women's history to view the use of women's oral narratives as the methodology, next to the use of women's written autobiography, that brings historians closest to the “reality” of women's lives. Such narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience from the perspective of women, affirm the importance of women's contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually and collectively.

——GMAT OG 2015, Reading Comprehension, Passage 9

解析

1.所給段落的第一個(gè)句子很長(zhǎng)，為了方便理解，大家可以先將狀語(yǔ)“in validating… their experience”、定語(yǔ)“next to … written autobiography”以及定語(yǔ)從句“that brings historians closest to the ‘reality’ of women's lives”（修飾“methodology”）跳過不看，只看主要部分“Current feminist theory has encouraged scholars of women's history to view the use of women's oral narratives as the methodology”。

2.詞組“next to”的意思是“次于；居于……之后”，“next to the use of women's written autobiography”意思就是“僅次于使用女性書面的自傳”。

3.第二個(gè)句子有三個(gè)并列的謂語(yǔ)：“represent”、“affirm”和“furnish”，由此可知，作者從三個(gè)方面指出了口頭故事和標(biāo)準(zhǔn)歷史的不同點(diǎn)。

詞義辨析

參考翻譯

現(xiàn)在的女權(quán)主義理論在使女性基于自身經(jīng)歷講述的故事生效的過程中，鼓勵(lì)女性歷史研究者們將女性口頭故事的使用看作一種僅次于使用女性書面自傳的方法論，這種方法論能把歷史學(xué)家?guī)У诫x女性生活的“現(xiàn)實(shí)”最近的距離（即這種方法論最能使歷史學(xué)家了解女性真實(shí)的生活）。與大多數(shù)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)歷史不同的是，這些（口頭）故事從女性的角度描述經(jīng)歷，肯定女性所做貢獻(xiàn)的重要性，并且為現(xiàn)在的女性提供了對(duì)她們的身份很重要的歷史連貫性，無論是對(duì)個(gè)人身份還是對(duì)集體身份。

實(shí)戰(zhàn)演練

Current feminist theory, in validating women's own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of women's history to view the use of women's oral narratives as the methodology, next to the use of women's written autobiography, that brings historians closest to the “reality” of women's lives. Such narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience from the perspective of women, affirm the importance of women's contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually and collectively.

Scholars of women's history should, however, be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already are about written memories…

According to the passage, each of the following is a difference between women's oral narratives and most standard histories EXCEPT :

(A) Women's oral histories validate the significance of women's achievements.

(B) Women's oral histories depict experience from the point of view of women.

(C) Women's oral histories acknowledge the influence of well-known women.

(D) Women's oral histories present today's women with a sense of their historical relationship to women of the past.

(E) Women's oral histories are crucial to the collective identity of today's women.

答案：C

答案解析

題目問的是下面哪項(xiàng)不屬于婦女的口頭故事和標(biāo)準(zhǔn)歷史的區(qū)別。解題思路很簡(jiǎn)單，將各個(gè)選項(xiàng)和文中提到的幾個(gè)不同（原文“unlike”一句引出的內(nèi)容）一一對(duì)應(yīng)就可以了。選項(xiàng)A“婦女的口述歷史證實(shí)了婦女成就的重要性”和原文“affirm the importance of women's contributions”對(duì)應(yīng)；選項(xiàng)B“婦女的口述歷史從婦女的角度描述經(jīng)歷”和原文“represent experience from the perspective of women”對(duì)應(yīng)；選項(xiàng)D“為現(xiàn)在女性提供了她們和以往女性之間的歷史關(guān)聯(lián)感”及選項(xiàng)E“女性的口頭歷史對(duì)現(xiàn)在女性的集體身份很重要”都與原文“furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity”對(duì)應(yīng)；只有選項(xiàng)C“女性的口頭歷史承認(rèn)著名女性的影響”與原文不對(duì)應(yīng)，原文并沒有指定著名女性，故C是正確選項(xiàng)。