Professions for Women [🏛️公版经典 B2]
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《女性的职业》是伍尔夫的经典演讲。她提出“家中天使”的意象：社会塑造出温柔无私、自我牺牲的女性形象，束缚女性创作者。
文章讨论女性走向职业道路时的内心枷锁，文字充满力量，意象鲜明，适合B2学习议论文意象修辞与长句拆解。
🇬🇧 英文原文
When I started to write reviews, I did not have a studio. I had nothing but a sitting room, and only half of that was mine. All the other rooms belonged to the family. Thus I had to write in the common room, and be interrupted perpetually. I discovered that if I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certain phantom. And the phantom was a woman, and when I came to know her better I called her after the heroine of a famous poem, The Angel in the House. She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts of family life. She sacrificed herself daily. If there was chicken, she took the leg; if there was a draught she sat in it — in short she was so constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of her own, but preferred to sympathize always with the minds and wishes of others. Under her influence I would write things against my own judgment. I could not go on. I turned upon her and caught her by the throat. I did my best to kill her. Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer. It was still a hard fight, because she was a real person. She haunted many houses. And it is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
🇨🇳 中文译文（本站自译）
我刚开始写书评的时候，没有专属书房，只有一间客厅，而且客厅只归我一半。其余房间都属于家人。于是我只能在公共客厅写作，不断被打断。
我发现，如果我要写书评，就必须和一个幻影搏斗。这个幻影是一名女性。当我慢慢熟悉她，我借用一首名诗女主角的名字，称她为“家中天使”。
她极度体贴，魅力十足，完全无私。精通家庭生活里种种难事，日日牺牲自我。餐桌上有鸡肉，她只吃鸡腿；哪里有穿堂风，她就坐在风口。简言之，她生来就没有自我想法与愿望，只会体谅顺从他人的心意。
在她的影响下，我会写出违背自己本心的文字。我无法继续。我转身扑向她，扼住她的咽喉，拼尽全力杀死这个幻影。
杀死“家中天使”，本就是女性写作者职业的一部分。这场搏斗依旧艰难，因为这个幻影无比真实，萦绕在无数家庭之中。而消灭一个虚幻幻影，远比对抗现实事物更加困难。
📚 重点词汇
perpetually /pəˈpetʃuəli/ adv. 持续不断地
phantom /ˈfæntəm/ n. 幻影，幻象
heroine /ˈherəʊɪn/ n. 女主角，女英雄
intensely /ɪnˈtensli/ adv. 强烈地
immensely /ɪˈmensli/ adv. 极其，非常
utterly /ˈʌtəli/ adv. 完全地
excel /ɪkˈsel/ v. 擅长，出众
draught /drɑːft/ n. 穿堂风
constituted /ˈkɒnstɪtjuːtɪd/ adj. 天生如此构成的
haunt /hɔːnt/ v. 萦绕，纠缠
🔍 长难句语法解析
1. When I started to write reviews, I did not have a studio.
when时间状语从句；start to do 开始做某事。
2. I discovered that if I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certain phantom.
that宾语从句内嵌套if条件句；do battle with 与……搏斗。
3. She excelled in the difficult arts of family life.
excel in 擅长；arts此处指技艺，不是美术。
4. ...she was so constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of her own...
so ...that... 如此……以至于……；of her own 属于她自己的。
5. Under her influence I would write things against my own judgment.
under one’s influence 在某人影响下；against one’s judgment 违背本心判断。
6. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
it形式主语，比较结构far harder，far用来加强比较级。