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Besides SEX:Sex Education 谈“性”之外:《性爱自修室》

March 12, 2020 Snow 



An online serial from Netflix has attracted lots of attention this winter. Sex Education Season 2 landed in China. As a Chinese student, I highly recommend this fantastic and humorous serial which teaches us how to love ourselves and love others. It pushes our country to face up to the lacking sex education of teenagers in mainland. Sex is worth a discussion, but I want to leave it to you to learn from the serial. In this article I am going to share something besides sex, and I have learned a lot from this character,Maeve Wiley.



网飞上映的一部剧在这个冬天引起全城热话,《性爱自修室》第二季上线中国。作为一个中国学生,我强烈推荐这部教会我们爱人爱己的幽默喜剧。它让我们去思考青少年性教育严重缺乏的问题。“性”是一个值得讨论的问题,但我想留给读者在剧中自行体会。这里我想和大家分享一下一些“性”以外的东西,一个我从中学到很多的角色---梅芙·威利。




People may tend to believe that Maeve is a bad girl in stereotypes when they see Maeve in the first place. A head of pink hair, smoky eye makeup, dressing in punk style and giving the middle finger quite often make Maeve seem like the most rebellious girls in school. But since she said, everyone always lets me down. The other side of her, the real her has revealed little by little.

在刻板印象中,我们一开始会觉得Maeve是个“坏女孩”。一头粉红色的头发,浓浓的烟熏妆,朋克风的打扮还有时不时就竖起的中指都会让我们觉得她似乎是学校里最叛逆的女孩。但当我看到她说“每个人都总让我失望”的时候,我就知道她的另外一面在一点点地掀开。



A picture of vagina spread over Moordale high school. Someone threatened that the name of the vagina would be made known to the public by the end of day. Maeve decided to help Ruby for free to find out who release that photo online when Ruby admitted that photo was her. Maeve knew that how strong the power of rumor is which would have enduringly bad influence on a person because Maeve had been a victim of rumor. Though Ruby is mean and unfriendly, Maeve persuade Otis that even Ruby doesn’t deserve that. Maeve hate rumor herself so that she wouldn’t take the opportunity to be revenged on Ruby. That’s how we Chinese say what you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

一张阴道的照片传遍了莫尔戴中学。有人威胁到今天之前会公开这张照片的主人。当Ruby找到Maeve承认那张照片的主人是自己时,Maeve决定免费去帮Ruby找出是谁发的照片。Maeve清楚地知道谣言的力量有多强大,并且会对一个人产生非常长久的影响,因为她自己就是谣言的受害者。所以尽管Ruby待人刻薄并且对人不友好, Maeve还是对Otis说,即便是Ruby也不该承受这些,并说服他去帮忙。Maeve憎恨流言蜚语,但她绝不会借此向Ruby报复。这大概就是中国人所说的,己所不欲勿施于人。




Maeve has gone through lots of difficulties to grow up. Her father went away when she was a little child and her mother was a druggy. She lives with her elder brother in a container house. Having such an awful family, she still loves her family, deeply. After her mother came back with a younger sister she has never seen before, she still takes the responsibility to look after her sister even when she has an important competition. She always says everyone always lets me down and she lost faith in human relationship owing to her irresponsible parents. But she is willing to trust her mother again although her mother hurt her so deeply.

Maeve在成长的过程中遇到过很多的困难。她的爸爸在她很小的时候便离家出走了,她的妈妈是一个瘾君子。她和她的哥哥在一个货柜屋里相依为命。尽管有一个很糟糕的家庭,但她依旧深爱她的家人。当她妈妈带了一个她从未见过的同母异父妹妹回来,她挣扎过后仍担起了照顾妹妹的责任,甚至有时在重要的比赛前一刻。她总是说,每个人都总是让她失望,因为她不负责任的父母,她对人与人之间的关系失去信心。但Maeve还是愿意去再一次相信她的母亲,尽管她母亲曾伤得她那么深。




We usually believe that children are a mirror of their parents. If one’s parents are druggies, then he probably is no better than that. However, Maeve is a miracle. She is tough, true, caring and smart. But it doesn’t mean that suck family has no effect on her. She said she doesn’t make boyfriends not because she doesn’t want a boyfriend. She likes Jackson while she doesn’t think she deserves that, and lacking sense of security makes her afraid of starting a new relationship. She has been betrayed so many times that she cannot even love herself better. Life is not easy for her, but she still tries to be nice to people who she cares for even it may hurt. After all those sufferings and tribulations, she still believes the good in life and still believes in hope. Maeve reminds all of us that no matter how dark life is, you can still own a bright heart.

我们通常相信孩子是父母的一面镜子。如果一个孩子的父母是瘾君子,那么这个孩子大概也好不到哪里去。但Maeve就像是个奇迹。她坚强,真实,富有同情心还聪明。但这并不意味着那个糟糕的家庭对她没有一点影响。她说她不会交男朋友,并不是因为她不想交男朋友。事实上,她也有喜欢的人但她觉得她不配拥有,以及严重缺乏安全感使她不敢开始新的感情。Maeve曾被背叛了那么多次以至于她连自己都不能好好爱惜。生活对于她来说,十有九不如意,但她仍尝试毫不保留地对爱的人好,尽管可能会受伤。在这么多苦难和折磨之后,她始终相信生活中的美好,她始终相信希望。Maeve提醒着我们所有人,不管生活有多黑暗,内心仍然可以很明亮。



Date:2020/03/10








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