1、A Woman Can Learn Anything a Man Can男人会的,女人也能学会 When I was a kid, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters and we had a complete miniature kitchen, a herd of My Little Ponies and several Barbie and Ken dolls. We didn’t have any toy trucks, G. I. Joes o
2、r basketballs. We did have a Wiffle-ball set, but you would have been hard-pressed to find it in our playroom. Tomboys we weren’t. 当我还是个小孩时,我卧室里的所有东西都是粉红色的。我有两个姐姐,我们有一个一应俱全的微型厨房、一群小矮种马和一些芭比娃娃、肯娃娃。我们没有玩具卡车、玩具大兵、篮球。我们确实有一套空心棒球,但是很难在我们的游戏室中找到。毕竟我们不是假小子。 So some peopl
3、e may find it ironic that I grew up to be a mechanical engineer. In fact, I am the only female engineer at my company. In order to get my college degree, I had to take a lot of math and science classes. I also had to work with a team of students as part of a national co
4、mpetition to convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle — that’s where I learned how to fix cars. I’m proud to say that I got A’s in all my classes, including multivariable calculus and differential equations. I’ve always been pretty good at mat
5、h and design, but I didn't understand where that could take me. I was expected to go to college, but no one ever told me I’d make a good engineer someday. 因而一些人或许会对我成长为一个机械工程师而倍感惊讶。事实上,我是我们公司唯一的一名女工程师。为了获得我的大学文凭,我不得不上许多数学和自然科学课程。我也不得不和一小组学生合作去参加一个全国竞赛——将一辆耗油特多的运动型多用途汽车改装
6、为一辆混合电动汽车——正是这样我学会了修车。我很骄傲我门门功课都是A,包括多元微积分和微分方程。我的数学和设计一向很好,虽然我不明白这会给我带来什么结果。家里人期盼我去上大学,但没有人告诉过我我将来会成为一名优秀的工程师。 When I was in high school, I didn’t know the first thing about engineering. I couldn’t have distinguished a transmission from an alternator. The car I drove
7、needed some work but I was afraid to take it to the mechanic. Because honestly, the mechanic could have shown me an electric can opener and said, “This is part of your car and it’s broken — pay me to fix it,” and I wouldn’t have known any better. 在我还在上高中时,我对工程一窍不通。我根本分辨不出