新闻热词：性骚扰

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　　美国一份调查显示，男性在工作场所遭遇性骚扰的案例再创新高。根据EEOC的统计，2006年度，男性投诉遭性骚扰的比例占这类总投诉案件的15.4%，其中骚扰者通常都是男性。
　　请看外电相关报道：A record number of men reported being sexually harassed in the workplace last year, according to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission .
　　Newly released data from the EEOC showed that 15.4 percent of the 12,025 charges of sexual harassment in fiscal year 2006 were filed by men, as opposed to 11.6 percent a decade earlier.
　　报道中的“sexual harassment ”就是“性骚扰”。注意啦，根据“韦氏字典”，“sexual harassment”指的是“uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical conduct directed at a person because of his or her sex”(对男性或女性实施不受欢迎的性行为，包括身体接触或言语挑逗)。由此，如新闻所示，“性骚扰”的受害者不仅仅是女性，同时也包括男性。
　　在用法上，如果想强调某一案例是“男性对男性实施性骚扰”，可表达为“male-on-male sexual harassment”。反之，“性骚扰”可依据具体情况表达为“ sexual harassment”或者“sexual harassment against male/female”。
　　此外，“性骚扰”若做动词，常用被动语态“to be sexually harassed”。
　　看下面一个例句：There have been some cases of sexual harassment against women in this office.(这个办公室里曾发生过女性遭遇性骚扰的案例。)