11 Powerful Women We Met Around the World in 2017

1. Manal al-Sharif

Manal al-Sharif is best known for challenging laws and mores that keep women down in her native country.

2. Emma Morano

Emma Morano's singular achievement in life may have been perseverance. She lived for 117 years, crediting her longevity to raw eggs and her lack of a husband. She died on April 15.

3. Margot Wallstrom

As foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, who broke free from a violent relationship in her 20s, is challenging assumptions in a traditionally male sphere.

4. Olive Yang

Born to royalty in Burma, Olive Yang, who died on July 31, rejected her birthright to become a cross-dressing warlord and opium trafficker.

5. Asli Erdogan

Asli Erdogan, a novelist of the "dark, pessimistic," is struggling to process her own grim experience: months in prison.

6. Letizia Battaglia

Letizia Battaglia chronicled Palermo's Mafia wars in the 1970s and '80s for a local newspaper. Now, her images appear in museums and retrospectives.

7. Alice Schwarzer

Alice Schwarzer, who has battled for women's rights for years, is stunned that "an old-school sexist" like Donald J. Trump could win the United States presidency.

▍生詞好句

mores /?m??ri?z/ /?m??re?z/: n. 習俗

keep sb. down: 壓制某人

perseverance /p??s??v??r(?)ns/: n. 堅持不懈

longevity /l?n?d??v?ti/: n. 長壽

credit A to B: 把 A 歸功于 B

break free from: 從……當中擺脫出來

sphere /sf??/: n. 領域；階層

cross-dressing: adj. 著異裝的 (本文指女扮男裝)

warlord /?w??l??d/: n. 軍閥

opium /???p??m/: n. 鴉片

grim /ɡr?m/: adj. 令人沮喪的

stun /st?n/: vt. 使……驚呆

old-school: adj. 傳統(tǒng)的；老套的

presidency /?pr?z?d(?)nsi/?: n. 總統(tǒng)的職位