VOA慢速英语:Should We Be Able to Choose Our Sex, Racial Identity?

短语讲解：

1. “I would say about five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and the black curly hair, you know, that was how I was portraying myself.”

instead of 代替
例句：A spirit lamp burns spirits instead of oil.
酒精灯里点的不是油而是酒精。

2. “They both have to deal with people who run right into conflict with our long-held beliefs about what natural real categories are when it comes to race or when it comes to gender.”
 
deal with 处理
例句：I have a huge pile of letters to deal with.
我有一大堆信件要处理。

3. But the case of Rachel Dolezal seems to show that not as many people believe we should be able to choose our racial identity.

be able to 能够
例句：We must be able to stay impartial at all times.
我们必须经常保持公正的态度。