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Feminism is the belief that women should have the same rights and chances as men — to vote, to learn, to work, to be paid fairly, to be safe, to choose. Though actually, people who accept that sentence still argue about the rest: some fight mainly in law, some about money in the home, some about how girls are talked to at school.
FeminismFeminism is是 the belief一種信念,that women should have the same rights and chances as men認為女性應該擁有跟男性一樣的權利和機會 — to vote投票權,to learn受教育的機會,to work工作,to be paid fairly獲得公平的薪水,to be safe獲得安全,to choose能夠自己選擇。 Though actually不過其實,people who accept that sentence接受這句話的人 still argue about the rest對其他細節還是有爭論:some fight mainly in law有些人主要在法律上爭取,some about money in the home有些人在意家裡的錢,some about how girls are talked to at school有些人在意學校裡怎麼對女生說話。
The word can feel hot. In some rooms it is said with pride; in others it is like a warning, and a few people use it as an insult, which tells you more about them than about the idea.
The word這個字 can feel hot可能讓人覺得很敏感。 In some rooms在某些場合,it is said with pride這個字被驕傲地說出來;in others在另一些場合 it is muttered like a warning它被小聲說出來,像是一種警告,and a few people use it as an insult而有些人把它當成侮辱來用,which tells you more about them than about the idea這反映出他們自己,而不是這個概念本身。
English first recorded feminism in 1851 with a different meaning — “the state of being feminine.” The “women’s rights” sense we use now is from 1895. You will meet it in news, essays, and class; it is a serious, public word, not café slang.
English英文 first recorded feminism in 1851第一次記錄 feminism 這個字是在 1851 年 with a different meaning當時是不同的意思 — 'the state of being feminine'「有女性特質的狀態」。 The 'women's rights' sense we use now「女權」這個我們現在用的意思 is from 1895是從 1895 年開始的。 You你 will meet it in news, essays, and civics class會在新聞、文章和公民課裡遇到它;it它 is是 a serious, public word一個嚴肅、公開場合用的字,not café slang不是咖啡廳裡的閒聊用語。
組成From French féminisme (around 1837), ultimately from Latin fēmina, “woman”, plus -ism (a belief or movement). In French the rights meaning was probably built straight from fēmina, as if from a Neo-Latin feminismus. English borrowed the form, then shifted the sense: 1851 “being feminine,” 1895 “advocacy of women’s rights.”
同家族的字
- feminista person who holds this belief; also the adjective
- femininesame Latin fēmina, but about qualities, not politics
- femininitysame root; the qualities, not the movement
- feminizesame root; a verb meaning to make more female or more ‘woman-like’ — not ‘to make someone a feminist’
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
feminismnoun/ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/
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A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
- Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority feminisms, themselves far from homogenous.
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obsoleteThe state of being feminine; femininity.
- His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。