"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."
VOA: special.2009.11.18
She writes, Woman's being created last will not be a very great argument to debase the dignity of the female sex.
她写道,女性被后造出来并不能,为压制女性尊严做论证。
Not Milton himself would cry up liberty to poor female slaves or plead for the lawfulness or resisting a private tyranny.
即便米尔顿本人也不愿为那些女奴的自由所呼号,辩解,或是反对这种私底下的暴行“
For each ten percentage point increase in sports participation, she found a one point increase in female college attendance.
VOA: special.2010.03.04
Somebody says, "What is a mare?" "Well, it's a female horse." "Well, it's a female horse" is the metalingual function.
有人问“什么是母马“,“母马就是雌性的马“,“母马就是雌性的马“这句话就是元语功能。
The female is much smaller. Institute director Steven Monfort has a reason why the clouded leopard may be rare.
VOA: special.2010.06.22
In a situation where, let's say, female genital cutting is going on and some people perpetuate on theological grounds.
比如说,女性割礼,这种仪式仍在进行,有些人一味地强调神学的地位。
A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.
VOA: special.2010.05.26
Somehow when you're unnamed you're not part of language; you're still connected to the mother. And he actually had a female name. Remember he's called Christine for a while.
不管什么原因你没有名字就是没成为语言的一部分;,你还是与妈妈紧紧联系,事实上他会得到,一个女性的名字,记住他曾经一段时间被叫做克里斯汀那。
When last heard from, Amelia Earhart was seeking to become the first female pilot to fly a plane around the world.
VOA: special.2011.01.18
Genesis 1 speaks of male and female, one set of Hebrew terms, but Genesis 2 uses man and woman, a different set of Hebrew terms to describe the genders.
创世纪》1中用希伯来语中的男人女人,但是《创世纪》2用男的和女的,用另外的希伯来语单词描述性别。
But in addition to the killings, human rights groups say a similar number of female protesters were raped.
VOA: special.2009.10.24
And so he said, if you start off with a male and a female, at the end of one month they have an offspring. Let's assume they have two offspring. At the end of the next month let's assume those offspring have offspring. Again a male and female.
在13世纪的时候想要计算兔子的数量,就是一个月大的兔子,再过一个月就可以进行交配,所以它说如果你一开始有一公一母两只兔子,在一个月末它们就可以生小兔子,让我们假设它们生了两只小兔子。
The female spiders have a bright yellow splash of color on their bodies and can grow as large as a human hand.
VOA: special.2009.10.30
What's on the screen are computer generated faces of a Caucasian male and a Caucasian female who don't exist in the real world.
屏幕上面的这些是电脑生成的,一个高加索男性和一个高加索女性的面孔,他们在现实世界中并不存在
She was the first female golfer to score lower than three hundred in a seventy-two hole tournament.
VOA: special.2009.03.29
There had been a rumor that female incendiaries, had been setting fire to fancy houses and had been burning down the Bank of France.
有传言说女纵火犯们,到处放火焚烧妓院,还烧毁了法兰西银行
To produce these animals, researchers inject fertilized mice eggs with foreign genes, and then place them in the uterus of a female mouse.
VOA: special.2009.06.23
So that if a man happens to love someone, either male of female, he would be more eager " to win the rewards of valor."
所以只要一名男性刚好喜欢某人,无论是男是女,他将势必会渴望,赢得英勇的奖赏“
Sometimes a difference in spelling can identify whether the person with the name is male or female.
VOA: special.2009.07.06
This is a picture of the female reproductive tract.
这是一张女性生殖系统的图片
In June,the Speed Sisters became the first all-female racing team to compete in the Speed Test, a popular race in the West Bank.
VOA: special.2010.07.30
He's the friend of women everywhere, at least for a few of his female readers in the eighteenth century, and for many he's the very embodiment of oppressive patriarchy.
他到处都有女人缘,至少在18世纪他有不少女性读者,但对很多人来说他是压抑的男权主义的象征。
A calf is a young cow. A young female cow, especially one that has not yet had a calf, is called a heifer: H-E-I-F-E-R.
VOA: special.2009.07.21
You have a primeval salt water ocean which is identified Tiamat with a female divine principle, Tiamat.
当时也有原始的咸水海洋,它和女性神道有关。
She was a photographer,travel writer and the first female board member of the National Geographic Society.
VOA: special.2011.04.08
And penis envy is an account of a developmental state that every one of you who is female has gone through, according to Freud.
根据弗洛伊德的理论,阴茎嫉妒是对女性所经历的,某一发展状态的解释。
More than three hundred researchers studied a female Hereford cow from the American state of Montana.
VOA: special.2009.05.05
A lot of journals do blind reviewing now because of the evidence I talked about before regarding sexual stereotypes, that whether it has a male name or a female name makes a difference. So those are not-- those are group level in that they're not saying, "You get rid of your prejudices by trying harder."
现在很多报刊都审查论文都是匿名的,原因就是我刚才讲的,性别刻板印象,名字会透露作者是男性或女性,这样会影响审查公正,所以…,这些群体要摆脱刻板印象,并不是一味压抑就行的“
Now we might agree that this's a reasonable enough fantasy of female invulnerability but of course there is nothing in our sad experience with sexual menace that actually bears the theory behind this fantasy out.
现在我们可能会同意,这里有个很合理的幻想,即女性不会受到伤害,但当然,在这个幻想背后,性骚扰的遭受,使没有东西支持这个理论。
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