【词汇大师】你好，女士（1/2）

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女士，不仅年龄是个秘密，婚姻状况也是不能随便问及的。那么英语里怎么来避免称呼上的尴尬呢？有请Ms.登场~
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本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"Why don't you read us a little bit from that article?"
主持人对话②"And this was written in November of 1901."
主持人对话③"Do you have any idea who wrote it?"
HINTS
Springfield Republican of Springfield
Massachusetts
Affairs

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"There was an article in the Springfield Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts, on November tenth,1901. But I wasn't able to find the original article for quite a long time; I was only able to find discussion about the article. It ended up getting reprinted in newspapers around the country."
"It starts off by saying 'There is a void in the English language which, with some diffidence, we undertake to fill. Everyone has been put in an embarrassing position by ignorance of the status of some woman. To call a maiden Mrs. is only a shade worse than to insult a matron with the inferior title Miss. Yet it is not always easy to know the facts.'"
"Unfortunately these newspaper items were unsigned so we don't know who the actual author was. Very likely a man, but the title of the section that it appears is Men, Women and Affairs. Springfield, Massachusetts, was actually a place where there was a lot of what's called first wave feminism -- so, for instance, the women's suffrage movement, where they were lobbying for women to have the right to vote. So it was active in terms of early feminism. "