天了嚕！印度高官呼吁外國(guó)女性在印不要穿裙子.

　　There was uproar at the weekend when Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said that a list given to tourists at airports advised them not to wear skirts or dresses in India or venture out alone at night in small towns

　　上周末印度發(fā)生了一些騷亂，起原因是印度文化部部長(zhǎng)夏爾馬在機(jī)場(chǎng)發(fā)放的旅游手冊(cè)上給出了一些建議，要求游客在印度不要穿著裙子或晚禮服，也不要晚上在小城鎮(zhèn)里獨(dú)自外出。

　　Sadly, he is not the first - and he certainly won’t be the last - to deliver such advice to women on how to keep themselves safe and avoid rape.

　　可悲的是，他不是第一個(gè)這么建議婦女保護(hù)自己、避免被強(qiáng)奸的人，肯定也不會(huì)是最后一個(gè)。

　　Time and again, ministers, politicians and other influential community leaders have been telling women and girls not to wear jeans, short skirts, dresses or shorts. Women have also been told not to go out after dark, date, be friends with boys, or even use mobile phones.

　　一次又一次，印度政府部門部長(zhǎng)、政客、及其他頗有影響的組織領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人都一直在告誡婦女們不要穿著牛仔褲、短裙、裙子和短褲。婦女們也被告誡不要在天黑以后出門，不要和男人們約會(huì)、交朋友，甚至不要使用手機(jī)。

　　Since the brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in December 2012 in Delhi, there is much more scrutiny within India - and globally - of what influential people and opinion makers say about violence against women.

　　自從2012年12月德里一名23歲大學(xué)生在公交車上慘遭輪奸殺害以來(lái)，在印度和整個(gè)世界都有更多的目光來(lái)監(jiān)督有影響力人物和輿論家，看看他們?cè)卺槍?duì)女性的暴力犯罪案件上到底是何態(tài)度。

　　The justification offered by many in India’s largely paternalistic society is that these remarks are well meaning and actually meant to protect women.

　　在印度這個(gè)高度家長(zhǎng)式的社會(huì)中，許多人都為這些荒唐的言論辯護(hù)，認(rèn)為這些言論都是善意的，其目的是為了保護(hù)婦女。

　　But women activists and commentators disagree - they say that there’s no correlation between short skirts and rape.

　　但是女性活動(dòng)家和評(píng)論家們則持有不同意見(jiàn)--他們認(rèn)為短裙和強(qiáng)奸案之間沒(méi)有相關(guān)性。

　　"It’s very very important that these politicians stop telling women what sort of clothes to wear or what not to wear," Swati Maliwal, chi of Delhi Commission for Women, told the BBC.

　　“德里婦女委員會(huì)”領(lǐng)頭人斯瓦特告訴BBC說(shuō)道：“應(yīng)該讓這些政客們不再對(duì)婦女們指手畫腳，不再告訴婦女們應(yīng)該穿什么、不該穿什么，這非常非常重要?！?/p>

　　"It’s time they stop trivialising issues like rape and sexual harassment and do something constructive to address these serious problems."

　　“他們應(yīng)該停止輕視像強(qiáng)奸和性騷擾這樣的事，應(yīng)該采取一些有建設(shè)性的措施來(lái)解決這些嚴(yán)重的問(wèn)題?！?/p>