“同妻”英語(yǔ)怎么說(shuō)

　　名詞解釋?zhuān)和?，男同性戀者的妻子。在男同性戀周?chē)?，有一個(gè)弱勢(shì)隱秘的群體，就是同妻。她們生活邊緣，不能發(fā)出聲音，被傳統(tǒng)文化打壓，為孩子忍辱負(fù)重，不敢大聲申訴，數(shù)量龐大，年齡各異。你知道“同妻”英語(yǔ)怎么說(shuō)嗎?

　　There may be as many as 16 million women on the Chinese mainland who are married to homosexual men, a leading expert has estimated.

　　Professor Zhang Bei-chuan at Qingdao University, an authority on AIDS and HIV, says that due to traditional family values in China, about 90 percent of homosexual men get married because of pressure to conform.

　　"But their wives are struggling to cope and their plight should be recognized," he said on Thursday.

　　Xiao Yao, a 29-year-old magazine editor in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, divorced her gay husband in 2008. "Most gay men's wives I've known are silently suffering at the hands of husbands who could never love them, and like me, some even got abused by husbands who were also under great pressure," she said.

　　據(jù)專(zhuān)家估計(jì)，中國(guó)大陸的同妻數(shù)量或多達(dá)1600萬(wàn)。

　　青島大學(xué)教授張北川稱(chēng)，由于中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)的家庭觀念，90%的男同性戀迫于壓力結(jié)婚。“但是他們的妻子是在掙扎中度日，他們的困境應(yīng)該被認(rèn)同”，張說(shuō)。

　　蕭瑤，現(xiàn)年29歲，西安的一位雜志編輯，2008年和她的同性戀丈夫離了婚。“我認(rèn)識(shí)的大多數(shù)同妻都在默默忍受他們的丈夫，她們永遠(yuǎn)得不到丈夫的愛(ài)。一些人甚至像我一樣受到同處巨大壓力下的丈夫的虐待”，她說(shuō)。

　　【講解】

　　文中的gay men's wives就是“同妻”的意思，“同妻”也可以說(shuō)成gays' wives。英語(yǔ)中，gay多指“男同性戀者”，lesbian指“女同性戀者”，homosexual指“同性戀者”，與此相關(guān)的英語(yǔ)詞匯還有，異性戀heterosexual，雙性戀bisexual。口語(yǔ)中常用straight這個(gè)詞表示“異性戀的”，與gay意思相反。“出柜”指同性戀公開(kāi)自己的性取向，英文可以表示為come out of the closet。