Apr. 17, 2020
1-nagging 叨唠的
2-clean up 清除
3-sexist 性别歧视
No more nagging wives: how Oxford dictionaries is cleaning up sexist language.
4-pick over 筛选
5-stereotype 刻板印象,老一套想法
6-perpetuate 永存的
After a huge project that involved picking over tens of thousands of example sentences, Oxford University Press has been quietly replacing hundreds of those unnecessarily perpetuate sexist stereotypes in Oxford Dictionaries.
7-illustrate 说明,阐述,给……作插图
Michael Oman-Regean had noticed that the word "rabid" was illustrated with the example phrase rabid feminist.
8-campaigner 参与者,领导者
9-synonym 同义词
The move comes after a week in which OUP has also faced criticism over the synonyms featured in Oxford Dictionaries for the word " woman", with an open letter from campaigners criticising the inclusion of synonyms such as maid.
10-marginalise 使……边缘化
Within that boundary it's an important consideration to be conscious of the unintensional impact that authoritative resources like the dictionary can have on historically marginalised groups.
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