VOA常速英语:The Political Year of the Woman Proves True

It started with pink because women saw red, don’t diss us cuz we’re gonna be fighting.Some say the women marched straight into the House.This house, the US House of Representatives where a record number of women at least 96 of them will begin their new terms in January.25 of them are new to politics.Like Debbie Mucarsel Powell of Florida who introduced herself to voters in a very unique way.
用粉红色开始，因为女人很生气，后果很严重。别想着诋毁我们，因为我们也会打仗。有人说，这些妇女径直走进了房子，而这房子是美国众议院，创纪录数量的女性中至少有96人将于明年1月开始新任期，其中25人是政坛新人。就像佛罗里达州的黛比·穆卡塞尔·鲍威尔以一种非常独特的方式向选民介绍了自己。

I’ve been put down, pushed aside and Sharice Davids of Kansas who is a lesbian and a mixed martial arts fighter.She shares the title of first Native American woman in Congress with Deb Haaland of New Mexico.I didn’t have a role model in Congress,someone another native woman that I could go to and ask how did you do this, what advice can you give me.This is the year of the woman. That’s Donna Shillelagh of Florida,a former cabinet secretary who will be the oldest freshman representative at age 77 and then there are the two youngest women in history,29 year olds Abby Finkenaur of Iowa and Alecandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
我曾被打倒，也曾被排挤。堪萨斯州的Sharice Davids是一名女同性恋，同时也是一名综合格斗选手。她与新墨西哥州的黛布·哈兰(Deb Haaland)共同享有国会中第一位印第安妇女的头衔。我在国会里没有一个榜样，我没办法去找一个原住民，问她你是怎么做到的，你能给我什么建议。这一年是女人的一年。这是佛罗里达州的唐娜·希勒拉(Donna Shillelagh)，一位前内阁部长，她将在77岁时成为年龄最大的新生众议员，同时还有两位历史上最年轻的女性，爱荷华州的29岁的艾比·芬克纳乌(Abby Finkenaur)和纽约的阿列坎德里亚·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯(Alecandria Ocasio-Cortez)。

That’s exactly what this is, not a campaign or an election day but a movement.And that movement elected the first two Muslim women to Congress, Talib shares the limelight with IIhan Omar of Minnesota.Republican Young Kim of California appears to have won her election to be the first Korean-American in the US House.And House member Marsha Blackburn became Tennessee’s first Female Senator.
这就是今天的情况，不是一场竞选，也不是选举日，而是一场运动。这个运动选出了前两名穆斯林妇女进入国会。塔里布和明尼苏达州的伊汉·奥马尔(IIhan Omar)一起成为众人关注的焦点。来自加州的共和党人金妍儿赢得了选举，成为美国众议院首位韩裔美国人。众议院议员玛莎·布莱克本成为田纳西州第一位女参议员。

The last time women swept into office was 1992 also known as the year of the woman but back then just 24 were elected to the House and six to the Senate.Analysts expect this recent female candidate wave to continue. Now that women have gotten a taste and a flavour for what that means they really have broadened goals to be about policy priorities and issues that matter to them.Just last month the Inter-parliamentary Union ranked the US one hundred and fourth in the world for the number of female legislators serving on the national level. That change came tonight. Now that number is sure to rise.
上一次女性入主白宫还是在1992年，当时只有24位女性当选众议员，6位进入参议院。分析人士预计，最近的女性候选人浪潮将继续。现在，女性已经对这意味着什么有了初步的了解，她们确实拓宽了目标，涉及到政策重点和对她们重要的问题。就在上月，各国议会联盟将美国在国家一级的女议员数量排在全球第104位。变化今晚已经发生了，现在这个数字肯定会上升。

Carolyn Presutti, VOA News, Washington.
卡罗琳·普雷苏蒂，美国之音新闻，华盛顿报道。