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進入〈中英對照讀新聞〉 First Palestinian policewomen begin work 首批巴勒斯坦女警開始執勤
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Palestinian pedestrians gawked at the unusual sight of female police officers directing traffic in Ramallah recently, the first batch of women to venture into a job traditionally reserved for men in the West Bank.
巴勒斯坦朗阿拉市的行人，最近在馬路上紛紛盯著由女警來指揮交通的奇景看得目瞪口呆，這些女警是大膽投入傳統上屬於男性工作的首批約旦河西岸女性。
The women wore uniforms of navy blue pants and light blue shirts and many donned navy blue headscarves, a sign of Muslim modesty. Some male police officers sneered at the women as they directed traffic and kept pedestrians from jaywalking on their first day on the job.
女警們穿著深藍色長褲和淺藍色襯衫的制服，許多人還戴著深藍色的頭巾，象徵穆斯林的謙卑。但女警們第一天上任指揮交通、勸阻行人任意穿越馬路，卻也遭到部分男警員嘲諷。
The new recruits are part of the first class of Palestinian policewomen who recently completed a European Union-sponsored training program, part of a broader EU effort to improve ill-equipped Palestinian law enforcement agencies.
這些新進員警是巴勒斯坦第一批的女警，她們最近才完成一項由歐盟資助的訓練計畫，歐盟希望藉此改善巴勒斯坦執法單位人力不足的窘境。
In addition to directing traffic, their duties also include conducting traffic patrols, house searches and security checks on women in prisons and universities.
除了指揮交通外，女警的勤務還包括了執行交通巡邏、搜查民宅、以及對監獄和大學裡的女性進行安全檢查等。
新聞辭典
gawk at：口語用法，指看得瞠目結舌、傻愣愣地看，如Don’t sit there gawking like that - give me a hand!（別光坐在那裡看得發呆──快來幫我！）
venture：動詞，指冒險、大膽行事，如He ventured deep into the jungle.（他大膽深入叢林。）
jaywalk：動詞，指不守交通規則、任意橫越馬路，jaywalker則指任意穿越馬路的人，如We nearly ran over a couple of jaywalkers who walked out in front of the car.（我們差點撞上幾個從車子前方突然穿越馬路的行人。）
