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VOA慢速英语:What Bathroom Should Transgender People Use?

2016-05-02来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Transgender people are born with male or female bodies, but feel they were born into the wrong sex, according to the Intersex Society of North America.

according to 根据,按照
例句:According to her, grandfather called at noon.
据她说,祖父在中午打来电话。

2. Supporters say such laws are needed to protect women and children from sexual attacks.

protect from 保护, 保卫
例句:It is your duty to protect them from harm.
保护他们不受伤害是你的责任。

3. He said Target’s policy: “Means a man can simply say he ‘feels like a woman today’ and enter” the women's bathroom – “even if young girls or women are already in there.”

even if 哪怕; 虽然; 即使
例句:"Even if you take the exam again, you won't pass it."
你就算再考一次也通不过。