你遭遇过身高歧视吗？你的身高是你的加分项还是减分项？

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[00:11.36]Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Neil. 大家好，欢迎来到六分钟英语。我是尼尔。
[00:14.68]And I'm Catherine. 我是凯瑟琳。
[00:15.92]Catherine, are you tall enough?凯瑟琳，你足够高吗？
[00:18.34]Tall enough for what?足够高到做什么？
[00:20.23]Tall enough to be happy with your height. 足够高到对你的身高满意。
[00:22.21]Er, well, yes, I'm alright with my height, I can't do a thing about it anyway. So how about you?额，好吧，是的，我的身高对我来说没问题，不管怎样我也没办法对它做些什么。所以，你呢？
[00:27.18]Well, the same, really. 好吧，我也一样，真的。
[00:28.82]I wouldn't mind being slightly taller, I suppose, which is appropriate as today's topic is about heightism. 我不介意略微高点，我猜这大约也是今天节目的主题，关于身高歧视。
[00:35.67]Heightism. 身高歧视。
[00:36.57]Now, you may not have heard of heightism before. 嗯，你或许之前没听说身高歧视。
[00:39.40]But it's like other 'isms', like racism, sexism, ageism and other 'isms' that highlight a particular kind of discrimination or unequal treatment that people experience. 但是它就像其它带“isms”的词一样，像种族歧视，性别歧视，对老年人的歧视以及其它歧视，强调人们所经历的特定种类的歧视或者不平等的待遇。
[00:51.98]But before we find out more about this topic, our quiz question for today. 但是在我们找到更多关于这个主题的内容之前，是我们今天的测试问题。
[00:57.50]The tallest person ever proven to live was Robert Wadlow from the USA. 被证实长得最高的人是美国的罗伯特・瓦德洛。
[01:02.82]How tall was he? Was he: a) 2.71m, b) 2.72m or c) 2.73m? What do you think Catherine?曾他多高？是a) 2.71米， b) 2.72米 还是 c) 2.73米？你认为是什么呢，凯瑟琳？
[01:14.71]Wow, that's really, really tall! I'm going to guess 2.71m. 哇，那真的真的很高！我说是2.71米。
[01:21.00]Well, listen out for the answer at the end of the programme. 好吧，在节目最后注意听问题的答案。
[01:24.30]Tanya S Osensky is an attorney and author of the book 'Shortchanged' about her own experiences of heightism. 塔尼亚・艾斯・奥森斯凯是一名律师以及《欺骗》这本书的作者，书是关于她自己遭遇的身高歧视的经历。
[01:32.50]Clever title. 好巧妙的标题。
[01:33.64]To short-change someone' is to not give them what they are entitled to, what they deserve. “To short-change someone”就是不给他们有权获得的东西，应得的东西。
[01:39.60]And originally this phrase comes from paying for something and not getting the right money back. 而且最初短语是为某事物付款，钱没找对的意思。
[01:44.86]So if I buy something for 6 pounds and I pay with a 10 pounds note and the shopkeeper only gives me 3 pounds back, I've been short-changed. 所以如果我花6英镑买某件东西，付了10英镑纸币，店主只找回我3英镑，我就是被故意少找零钱了。
[01:54.70]It means I've been cheated. 它指的是我被欺骗了。
[01:55.31]And in the context of facing discrimination because you're not tall, 'Shortchanged' is a really good pun. 而且在由于你个子不高而面临歧视的语境下，“Shortchanged”真是一个不错的双关语。
[02:02.83]Tanya spoke about her book on the BBC radio programme Thinking Allowed. 塔尼亚在BBC节目Thinking Allowed中谈到了她的书。
[02:07.60]She talks first about our general feelings about height.  她首先提到的是我们对于身高的一般感觉。
[02:10.23]What does she say people never wish for?她说人们从不期望什么？
[02:13.37]Everybody that I've spoken to who is tall relishes their height. 和我谈过的每个高个子都享受他们的身高。
[02:19.16]I have not met anybody who said they would wish they were shorter. 我没见过有人说他们想要矮一点。
[02:22.68]And people generally tend to even embellish what their height is when you ask them what it is. 而且当被问及多高的时候，人们通常甚至倾向于夸大自己的身高。
[02:28.71]So what is it she says no one wishes for?所以她说没人期望什么？
[02:34.00]Well, she says no one wishes they were shorter!好的，她说没有人期望自己矮一点。
[02:36.29]And that's right. 是这样的。
[02:37.60]She said that tall people relish their height. 她说高个子享受他们的身高。
[02:40.15]This means they enjoy being tall, they get great satisfaction from it. 这指的是他们享受个子高，他们从中获得极大满足。
[02:43.69]And another point she makes is that many people embellish their height, if asked. 她提到的另一点是在被问到身高时，一些人会夸大他们的身高。这
[02:48.88]This means they say they are taller than they actually are. 指的是他们说的比他们真正的身高要高。
[02:51.76]Now, to embellish a fact means to exaggerate it to make it seem bigger, faster, better and so on. 现在夸大事实指的是夸大某事物，使它看起来更大，更快，更好以及等等。
[02:59.36]Here's Tanya S Osensky again. 这里是塔尼亚・艾斯・奥森斯凯再次提到的。
[03:02.28]Everybody that I've spoken to who is tall relishes their height. 和我谈过的每个高个子都享受他们的身高。
[03:08.90]I have not met anybody who said they would wish they were shorter.我没见过有人说他们想要矮一点。
[03:11.67] And people generally tend to even embellish what their height is when you ask them what it is. 而且当被问及多高的时候，人们通常甚至倾向于夸大自己的身高。
[03:17.60]She goes on to explain how some research has shown that shorter people are less likely to get jobs, 她继续解释一些调查是如何表明矮一些的人较少可能找到工作，
[03:25.20]less likely to get promoted and less likely to earn as much as taller people. 较少可能获得升职以及不太可能和个子高一些的人挣同样多的钱。
[03:29.49]What is the financial difference she mentions? 她提到的经济差距是什么？
[03:32.76]She talks about the premium per inch. 她谈到了每英寸的额外利益。
[03:35.70]An inch is about 2.5cm and the premium is a word which means the extra benefit, the extra advantage. 一英寸大约是2.5厘米，“premium”这个词指的是额外利益，额外好处。
[03:41.85]Here's Tanya S Osensky again. 这是塔尼亚・艾斯・奥森斯凯再次提到的。
[03:43.74]One set of data showed that the premium for height is over $2000 per inch for men and $1000 per inch for women. 有一组数据表明男性每英寸的身高利益超过2000美金，女性每英寸是1000美金。
[03:54.42]And over time that disparity grows significantly. 而且随着时间的变化，差距显著增加。
[03:59.25]So it ends up being a huge chunk of someone's paycheck over their career. 所以最终在某些人的职业生涯中有不少的薪水。
[04:05.80]She says that taller men earn $2000 an inch. 她说个子高一些的人每英寸挣2000美元。
[04:11.29]For women it's a bit less, but still significant at $1000 an inch. 对女性来说它要少一些，但是每英寸仍有1000美元那么多。
[04:16.80]And this disparity or difference between the salaries of taller and shorter people is an example of heightism. 而高个子和矮个子之间的这个差距或不同就是身高歧视的例子。
[04:24.20]Shorter people, she says, are getting fewer jobs and fewer benefits because they are short. 她说矮一点的人因为他们个不高，得到工作以及获得的利益较少。
[04:30.88]Well, one person who certainly wasn't short was the subject of today's quiz question. 好吧，高个子的那个人是今天测试问题的主题。
[04:35.38]The tallest person who has lived, Robert Wadlow. 世界上长得最高的人――罗伯特・瓦德洛。
[04:37.80]We asked how tall he was. 我们问他有多高。
[04:39.79]Was it a) 2.71m, b) 2.72m or c) 2.73m?What did you say, Catherine? 是a) 2.71米， b) 2.72米 还是 c) 2.73米？你说是什么，凯瑟琳？
[04:50.38]I said 2.71m. 我说是2.71米。
[04:52.58]Well, you were almost there. The correct answer was b) 2.72m. 好吧，你几乎就答对了。正确的答案是b) 2.72m。
[04:58.90]Congratulations if you got that right. 如果大家答对了，那就祝贺啦。
[04:59.97]Now Catherine, much as I relish being in the studio with you, we must wrap up the programme now with a review of today's vocabulary. 嘿，凯瑟琳，尽管我享受和你在演播室里的时光，但是我们必须要圆满完成节目，回顾今天的词汇。
[05:06.74]Well, 'relish' was one of those words. 好的，“享受”是那些单词之一。
[05:09.59]If you 'relish' something, you really enjoy it. 如果你“relish”某事物，你就是真的很享受它。
[05:12.89]So thanks you for that, Neil. 所以谢谢你享受和我待在演播室里，尼尔。
[05:14.27]You're welcome! This programme was about a kind of discrimination. 不客气。这次节目是关于一种歧视。
[05:17.94]This means the unfair or unequal treatment of people because of, for example, their race, religion, colour, age or indeed height. 它指的是人们由于例如种族，宗教，肤色，年龄或者是实际身高这些而遭到的不公平或者不平等的待遇。
[05:26.26]And discrimination because of someone's height is called heightism. 而且由于某人的身高造成的歧视叫做身高歧视。
[05:31.19]Something which many of us do is embellish our height. 我们当中许多人做的某件事情就是夸大我们的身高。
[05:34.35]We say we are taller than we actually are. 我们说的比我们实际身高要高。
[05:36.37]A premium is an extra benefit or advantage that can be gained, in this case, by being taller. “Premium”是可以获得的额外利益或者好处，在这里是个子高一些所能获得的额外利益。
[05:43.12]And finally we had disparity, another word for difference. 最后我们学了“差距”――“差异”的另一个单词。
[05:47.52]There is a disparity between salaries between tall people and their shorter colleagues. 高个子和他们矮一些的同事之间有工资差距。
[05:52.47]And that is 6 Minute English for today. 以上就是今天的六分钟英语。
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[06:05.70]Goodbye.再见。

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你遭遇过身高歧视吗？你的身高是你的加分项还是减分项？