英语谚语中的性别歧视——性格弱点具体表现

　　(1)女人是脆弱的

　　Frailty , thy name is woman.

　　(脆弱啊，你的名字是女人。)

　　Woman is made to weep. (女人生性爱流泪。)

　　A woman and a glass are ever in danger. (女人易毁，玻璃易碎。)

　　A woman is the weaker vessel. (女人是易碎的器皿。)

　　It is no more pity to see a woman weep than to see a

　　goose go bare foot. (女人哭如鹅光脚走路，根本不值得可怜。)

　　(2)女人是多变的

　　A woman is a weather cock. (女人是风向标。)

　　A winter weather and women’s thoughts change oft.

　　(秋天的云，女人的心—变化莫测。)

　　Women are wavering as the wind. (女人心思犹如风之多变。)

　　There’s nothing sooner dry than women’s tears.

　　(什么也没有女人的眼泪干得快。)

　　(3)女人是喧闹饶舌的

　　A woman’s tongue is the last thing about her thatdies.

　　Where there are women and geese, there wants nonoise. (哪有鹅和女人，哪不缺喧闹声)

　　Foxes are all tail and women are all tongue.

　　Three women and a goose make a market. (三个女人一只鹅，市场里面闹哄哄。)

　　A woman’s tongue wags like a lamb’s tail. (女人饶舌如同羔羊摆尾。)

　　Words are women, deeds are men. (女人的嘴巴，男人的行动。)

　　(4) 女人是虚荣，虚伪，罪恶的

　　Every woman would rather be beautiful than good. (女人爱美不重德。)

　　Tell a woman she is fair, and she will soon turnfool. (跟女人讲她长得漂亮，很快她就会晕头转向。)

　　Bad woman are worse than bad men.

　　Trust not a woman, when she weeps.

　　Bad women can do more than the devil.

　　Women are the devil’s nets. (女人是万恶之源。)

　　There is no devil so bad as a she-devil. (魔鬼当中女人最坏。)

　　Nothing agrees worse than a lady’s heart andbeggar’s purse. (女人的心和乞丐的钱包一样，糟糕透顶。)

　　(5) 其他

　　A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst. (求婚者多多,姑娘常选错。)

　　Women will have their wills. (女人爱一意孤行。)

　　Women have long hair and short brains. (女人头发长，见识短。)

　　When an ass climbs a ladder, we may find wisdom iswomen. (毛驴登梯时，女人才聪明。)

　　A woman cuts her wisdom teeth when she is dead. (女人死了才明理。)

　　Beauty and folly are often companions. (美与蠢，结伴行。)

　　在世人眼里，女人天生是弱者，软弱、爱慕虚荣、善变、饶舌、恶毒、愚昧、缺乏判断力等总被认为是女人与生俱来的性格弱点，而英语词women也就具有了“脆弱、自卑、反复无常、爱虚荣、轻佻、肤浅、爱说闲话”等贬低女性的内涵意义。