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沙特妇女慢慢地推进文化变革

2012-03-12来源:VOA
短语讲解:
1. At the same time the female staff connect with women clients better than men.

connect with使有关系
例句:His research work is connected with these experiments.
他的研究工作与这些实验有联系。

2. The strict guardian system requires all women to seek the permission of a close male relative to travel, to work, even to have some types of surgery.

relative to关于…的, 和…比较起来
例句:These are the facts relative to the problem.
这些都是与这问题有关的事实。

3. And by doing that they use women because they are the visible sign of this nationalism, for two reasons: women are responsible for reproducing the nation physically and also reproducing it socially and culturally.

be responsible for为…负责,形成…的原因
例句:She is my child, and I am responsible for her.
她是我的孩子,我对她负责。

4. Police generally turn a blind eye unless the act is being filmed.

turn a blind eye熟视无睹:拒绝正视,装作没看见
例句:Don't turn a blind eye to matters that concern the people's welfare.
不要对民众的利益漠然置之。

5. They are used in order to show that 'we have mobilization,' in order to show how reformist it is against the background of a conservative tribal society.

in order to为了
例句:We started early in order to arrive before dark.
为了在天黑前到达,我们很早就动身了。