篇一 :Professions_for_Women译文

Professions for Women(女人的职业)

女人的职业

听说你们协会是有关妇女就业的。协会秘书要我就职业问题谈谈自己的阅历。不错,我是女人,我也正在就业。可是我有些什么阅历呢?这个问题似乎很难回答。我的职业是文学,文学给予女人特有的阅历比其他职业要少,舞台表演除外。这是因为许多年前范妮?伯尼、阿普拉?贝恩、哈丽雅特?马蒂诺、简?奥斯丁、乔治?爱略特就在这条路上披荆斩棘了。无数知名的、不知名的女人在我之前扫除了障碍,调整了我的步伐。我开始写作时,这个职业已经不拒绝女性了。写作是个高尚而无害的职业,家庭的安宁不会被钢笔的嚓嚓声打破,也不需要很多的经济投资。花十六便士买的纸足够写下莎士比亚所有巨著 --------假如你也有个莎士比亚的脑袋的话。作家不需要有钢琴、模特儿,不要周游巴黎、维也纳和柏林,也不需聘请家庭教师。纸张便宜也许是女人在写作领域比其他领域成功的原因。

言归正传吧。我当作家的故事其实很简单,你们大可想象一个手执钢笔的姑娘坐在卧室,从左到右不停地写着,写着,从十点写到一点。然后,她把这些稿件装进信封,贴上一便士邮票投进信筒。我就是这样成为报纸撰稿人的。第二个月的第一天 ---- 那对我是辉煌的一天 --- 我竟收到编辑给我的信,还附了张一镑十六便士的支票。可我多不懂生活的艰辛呀!我没用这钱买面包和黄油,买鞋子或袜子,或者付杂货店老板的欠单,而是用它买了一只漂亮的波斯猫,一只不久便令我陷入邻里唇枪舌战的小猫。

还有什么比写文章,比用稿费买小猫更容易呢?可是,等等!文章得表明见地。记得那篇文章是评论某个著名作家小说的。写那篇文章时我就发现,评论作品时我需要与一种幻影搏斗。这个幻影就是女人。多次交锋以后,感觉开始明晰,我借一首著名诗歌里女主人公之名,称她为“屋子里的天使”。她横亘在我和稿纸之间,困绕我,折磨我,消耗我,令我最终忍无可忍,杀了她。你们年轻一代比较幸运,可能没听说过她--------因而不知道何为“屋子里的天使”。我简要地解释一下。她温柔可爱,善良无私。她擅长持家,富有牺牲精神。如果餐桌上有一只鸡,她拿的是鸡脚;如果屋里有穿堂风,她就坐在那里挡着。总之,她没有思想,没有渴望,只会附和与赞同。她最为引人注目的--------不必说--------是她的单纯。单纯是她最为动人之处--------那羞怯,那优雅,实在令人倾倒。维多利亚女王时代末期,每间屋子里都有这样的天使。我从写作伊始便面临这样的天使,每一页书稿上都碰到她的翼翅,听到她裙边相碰之声。当我握笔准备抨击某个作家作品时,她便悄悄溜到我身后低语,“亲爱的,你一个年轻女子竟要批评男人写的书?温柔贤淑些,显出虚心求教的样子,充分展示女人的妩媚和技巧,可不要表现自己的思想。单纯才是女性美。”她试图要指导我怎么写作。我可以自豪地告诉你们我是怎样采取行动的。也许这得归功于给我留下财产的我出色的先辈们,他们给我留下了一定数量的金钱--------也许每年五百镑,它让我能不靠美貌可爱过活。我转过身,扼住她的喉咙用力杀死她。假如我被押上法庭,我的借口是:我是在进行正当防卫。我不杀她,她会杀我,她要抽掉我作品的精神。没有思想,我怎么表现自己对人性、道德和性别的理解?而“屋子里的天使”们声称女人是不该公开讨论这些问题的。她们要的是可爱、迷人,想成功还得说谎--------说得粗鲁些。我一发现书桌上有她们羽翼的阴影或晕圈的光辉,就拿起墨水瓶向她们投去。上的,扼死她并不容易,她温柔可爱的外表极富欺骗性;而扼死假象中的幻影比扼死真实中的存在更困难。每每我要与其搏斗时,它便隐退了。虽然我自以为我终于杀死了她,但这场搏斗确实惊心动魄,其耗时不亚于学希腊语法,或进行漫游世界的探险。这便是我同时代女作家无从避免的经历。杀死“屋子里的天使”是女作家的职业组成部分之一。

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篇二 :Professions for Women

Professions for Women

班级:B101301 学号:B10130109 姓名:张明慧

Virginia Woolf is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the 20th Century as well as the pioneers of women’s liberation from patriarchy. Professions for Women is one of her famous pieces, which illustrates how should the women treat their status correctly and obtain the equal human rights by telling her own experiences. She uses a vivid metaphor “the Angel in the House” to describe the traditional requirements towards the women’s social role and their morality. She firmly believes that only women have abandoned the traditional woman’s role as a sympathizer to men can they have their own rights. Therefore, Virginia Woolf decides to kill that angel for her pursuit of the emancipation from the prejudice of the women.

This article can be divided into four parts. The first part is Paragraph 1. In the profession of literature, the author finds that there are fewer experiences peculiar to women than in other professions because many women writers before her had made the road smooth. The second part is Paragraph 2 to 4. In these paragraphs Virginia Woolf focuses on the obstacles to become a professional woman writer and her efforts to beat the traditional role of women in writing. The third part is Paragraph 5 to 6. The author was faced with the conflict between her own approach to art and the conventional approach expected of her by male critics when she was writing. She believed that sex-conscious was a great hindrance to women’s writing. That is to say, women will have many prejudices to overcome in the profession of literature and especially in new professions that women are entering. Women should try their best to get rid of them. The forth part is Paragraph 7. In this paragraph Virginia Woolf raised some important questions concerning the role of women and new relationship between the men and women.

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篇三 :Professions for Women

Professions for Women

This article is a speech made by Virginia Woolf, the topic of this speech is about professions for Women. At the beginning of this speech, she talk about her personal experiences , and then she uses three metaphors to talk about her creative thinking and feminism thinking. First metaphor is “The angel in the house”, second one is “A fisherman lying sunk in dreams on the verge of a deep lake with a rod”, third one is “A room of one’s own”.

The article can be roughly divided into four parts. The first part is from Para.1 to Para.2, at the beginning part of the story, the author talks about her personal experiences to introducing the topic under discussion. The second part is from Para.3 to Para.3 to Para.4, she uses a metaphor “killing the angel in the house” to describe her determine to get rid of the conventional role in her writing. The third part is from Para.5 to Para. 6, she employs the second metaphor, “the image of a fisherman lying sunk in dreams on the verge of a deep lake”, she wishes to remain “as unconscious as possible”, she wants to insist on her own approach to art, would not be effected by the male critics. The last part is Para.7, in the last part, Woolf concludes her speech by the third metaphor, “A room of one’s own”, she thinks all the freedom is a beginning; women should be filled with new ideas, attitudes and values.

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篇四 :professions for women

The first metaphor is “the angel in the house”.The angel refers to the model women in that time,or the Victorian women.They have to be tender,sympathetic flatter and deceive.However,for the women who want to have their own profession they have to say what they really think. The angel in the house is different from women who say their real thought .So this is an obstacle for women to find jobs.If they have jobs they will have their own will,they will not obey men.Thus this kind of model is their obstacle.

The second metaphor is the “fisherman”.The fisherman at a deep lake refers to the situation the author is trying to describe. Outwardly, the lake appears deadly calm, and the fisherman sunk in dreams.Under the surface of the water, there are big fish as well as hard stones, hidden in darkness. The line may go deep into the water to catch the biggest fish or, to crash on a hard rock. Inside the writer there are conflicting thoughts. That is the conflict between free thought and traditional belief.She has a lot of thoughts which are regarded as unacceptable by people of that time such passion and sex.So she was forced to keep them in heart.Put it generally it means many passions and new ideas of women were forced to be hold back because of traditional values and their gender.

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篇五 :Lesson 4 Professions for Women.

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5. Lesson 4: Professions for Women. Virginia Woolf Key words, phrases & idiomatic expressions Modernism; pioneer; liberation; patriarchy; experimentation; innovation; smooth; regulate; obstacle; reputable; envelope; cheque; battle; heroine; sympathetic; utterly; purity; pluck; conciliate; bluntly; radiance; phantom; perpetual; lethargy; illusion; torment; intense; flatter; wile; fictitious; roam; trance; impede; severity; nominally; formidable; do battle with; name …after or call…after; make as if to do something; be that as it may; to speak without figure; upon what terms A one-sentence summary of the text The writer talked about professions for women through analyzing her own professional experience. An outline of the text Part 1(paras.1) The author realized that when it comes to women writers in literature field, they have fewer experinces than those who work in other professions. Part 2(paras.2) The author met the host’s need to tell the audience about her own experinces of being a book reviewer when she was a girl. Part 3(paras.3) The author told about her first barrier in the process of becoming a professional woman writer. Part 4(paras.4) The writer hinted to tell the second experience and raised the question that what is a woman. Part 5(paras.5) The author told us her second experience and expressed her point that she believed sex-consciousness was a great hindrance to women’s writing. Part 6(para.6) The author concluded her two experience and found that women still had to struggle with prejudice in new professions. Part 7(para.7) The writer talked about the new role of women and the new relationship between men and women. Parts of the text you find difficult to understand The second experience. One meaningful question you especially want to raise about the text

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篇六 :Lesson 4 Professions for Women

Lesson 4 Professions for Women

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Woolf

1.Modernism

Modern literary practices. Also, the principles of a literary school that lasted roughly the beginning the 20th century until the end of World War II. Modernism is defined by its rejection of the literary conventions of the nineteenth century and by its opposition to conventional morality, taste, traditions and economic values.

2.Stream of Consciousness

●A psychological term

●Stream of consciousness denotes a literary technique which seeks to describe an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes.

● First used in the late 19th century, employed to evince subjective as well as objective reality. It reveals the character's feelings, thoughts, and actions, often following an associative rather than a logical sequence, without commentary by the author.

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篇七 :professions for women 2

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The Reason why Men have peculiar Right

In her article Profession for Women, Virginia Woolf shows every reader her opinions about the employment of women and men. It is unfair to women that they have no the same treatment as men. The reason why men have peculiar rights is the conventional concept.

We could always see one phenomena that girls are hard to find a good job when they just graduate from school. Usually girls are teachers, waitresses, secretary or cashiers. We hardly see them in factories. Even in big companies the number of males is lager than females. Large number of individuals could not realize why it is, but I think this is formed for a long time. Several years ago, women could have the same job as men. But we all know females should be pregnant and have a baby. So they had to stop their work. In other word, management should find someone to instead the mothers. That was not good for companies to get benefits. After that, managers thought men didn’t have these matters like women. Henceforth men were the good choice for companies. On the other hand, men are stronger than females. So men could do what women couldn’t do, especially the job in bad environment, such as the petro specialist in oil well, the worker in construction plant and the worker in a machine factory. So we could not think the behaviors that managers only choose males are wrong. I just say that is the historical matter.

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篇八 :4-Professions for Women

Lesson Four Professions for Women

Objectives

To enable the students

1) To grasp some knowledge about literature terms including modernism, stream of consciousness, feminist writers and women’s liberation movement,

2) To appreciate the poetic and symbolic quality, the subtle style as well as their rich historical and literary reference of Woolf’s works.

3) To understand the speech by making comparison between the dominant social values and women’s conditions now and then.

Time Allotment:

The teaching plan will be carried out within 8 periods.

Background Information

About the Author:

Virginia Woolf: 1882—1941, English novelist, critic, and essayist. 1) one of the world’s greatest writers of modernism 2) woman writer for women liberation, solving women’s issues.

In the home of her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf reared/ brought up in an atmosphere of literature and learning, receiving her education in her father’s own extensive library and meeting many of the outstanding literary and intellectual figures of the day. She was keenly aware that if she had been a boy she would have gone on to Cambridge or Oxford. Later with this sense of injustice, she wrote two feminist works, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938). Her mother died when she was 13.and she had a mental breakdown. When she had a second mental breakdown she tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a window. She remained in frail health all her life. After her father’s death, Virginia and her sister, Vanessa, hosted many gatherings of artists and writers who had been friends at Cambridge University. This began what came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. Virginia Woolf’s books draw largely on her own life experience. Her childhood provides the background for her novel To the Lighthouse. Almost all of her characters are members of her own leisured, intellectual, upper—middle class. Many of the novels are set in London, where she lived most of her life. In 1941, profoundly depressed by the war and afraid of the recurrence of a nervous breakdown, she filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse, leaving suicide note for her husband and sister. Her major works include Jacob’s room 1922; Mrs Dalloway 1925; To the Lighthouse 1927; Orlando: A Biography 1928 ; A Room of One’s Own 1929 ; and essays The Death of a Moth 1942; A Haunted House 1943. Figurative speech: metaphor e.g. angel; fisherman; room for your own

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