新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit6a_new

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[00:06.19]For her first twenty-four years, she'd been known as Debbie
[00:13.46]a name that didn't suit her good looks and elegant manner
[00:19.40]"My name has always made me think I should be a cook," she complained
[00:26.53]"I just don't feel like a Debbie."
[00:30.89]One day, while filling out an application form for a publishing job
[00:39.06]the young woman impulsively substituted her middle name, Lynne,
[00:46.01]for her first name Debbie.
[00:49.79]"That was the smartest thing I ever did," she says now.
[00:56.23]"As soon as I stopped calling myself Debbie,
[01:00.88]I felt more comfortable with myself ...
[01:04.94]and other people started to take me more seriously."
[01:09.05]Two years after her successful job interview,
[01:14.30]the former waitress is now a successful magazine editor.
[01:20.57]Friends and associates call her Lynne.
[01:26.26]Naturally, the name change didn't cause Debbie
[01:32.41]Lynne's professional achievement
[01:36.59]but it surely helped if only by adding a bit of self-confidence
[01:42.74]to her talents.
[01:45.88]Social scientists say that what you're called can affect your life
[01:52.32]Throughout history,
[01:55.99]names have not merely identified people but also described them.
[02:03.05]" … As his name is, so is he ..."
[02:08.12]says the Bible,
[02:11.15]and Webster's Dictionary includes the following definition of name:
[02:17.81]"a word or words expressing some quality
[02:23.96]considered characteristic or descriptive of a person or a thing,
[02:30.62]often expressing approval or disapproval
[02:36.60]Note well "approval or disapproval".
[02:42.36]For better or worse, qualities such as friendliness or reserve,
[02:49.92]plainness or charm may be suggested by your name
[02:55.86]and conveyed to other people before they even meet you.
[03:01.80]Names become attached to specific images,
[03:07.67]as anyone who's been called "a plain Jane"
[03:12.89]or "just an average Joe"; can show.
[03:18.22]The latter name particularly bothers me since my name is Joe
[03:25.06]which some think makes me more qualified to be a baseball player than
[03:31.61]say, an art critic.
[03:35.46]Yet, despite this disadvantage,
[03:40.50]I did manage to become an art critic for a time.
[03:45.65]Even so, one prominent magazine consistently refused to print
[03:54.11]"Joe" in my by-line, using my first initials, J.S., instead
[04:02.57]I suspect that if I were a more refined Arthur or Adrian
[04:09.62]the name would have appeared complete
[04:13.87]Of course, names with a positive sense can work for you
[04:20.14]even encourage new acquaintances.
[04:24.67]A recent survey showed that American men thought Susan
[04:31.40]to be the most attractive female name,
[04:35.94]while women believed Richard and David
[04:40.58]were the most attractive for men.
[04:44.58]One woman I know turned down a blind date with a man named Harry
[04:52.03]because "he sounded dull".
[04:57.18]Several evenings later, she came up to me at a party,
[05:02.87]pressing for an introduction to a very impressive man;
[05:08.81]they'd been exchanging glances all evening.
[05:13.45]"Oh," I said. "You mean Harry." She was ill at ease.
[05:21.01]Though most of us would like to think ourselves free from such
[05:26.66]prejudiced notions,
[05:30.01]we're all guilty of name stereotyping to some extent.
[05:35.84]Confess: Wouldn't you be surprised to meet a carpenter named Nigel?
[05:43.91]A physicist called Bertha? A Pope Mel?
[05:51.97]Often, we project name-based stereotypes on people,
[05:57.95]as one woman friend discovered
[06:01.80]while taking charge of a nursery-school's group of four-year olds
[06:07.56]"There I was, trying to get a little active boy named Julian
[06:14.22]to sit quietly and read a book
[06:18.11]and pushing a thoughtful creature named Rory to play ball.
[06:24.19]I had their personalities confused because of their names!"
[06:30.92]Apparently, such prejudices can affect classroom achievement as well.
[06:37.98]In a study conducted by Herbert Harari of San Diego State University,