Women Industrial Order Hoary Stereotypes Homemaking Activities Presumed

意群训练： For instance ，early textile-mill entrepreneurs ，in justifying women's employment in wage labor ，made much of the assumption that women were by nature skillful at detailed tasks and patient in carrying out repetitive chores ; the mill owners thus imported into the new industrial order hoary stereotypes associated with the homemaking activities they presumed to have been the purview of women .

标志： /For instance/, early textile-mill entrepreneurs , in justifying women's employment in wage labor , made much of the assumption ［that women were /by nature/ skillful (at detailed tasks) and patient (in carrying out repetitive chores)］; the mill owners thus imported into the new industrial order hoary stereotypes ［associated with the homemaking activities (that they presumed to have been the purview of women )］.

译文： /例如/，早期的纺织厂主们 在说明在工资劳动中雇用妇女的理由时，做了很大程度上的假设 ，即 妇女 /天生/就 擅长 （做细活）并且 （在从事重复性的杂务这方面）很耐心 ；厂主们 这样就把 ［关于（被他们视为妇女的天职的）家务劳动的\］陈腐的老套引入了 新的工业秩序之中 。

解释： 先解释两个词：justify在此的意思不是我们通常所说的“使合法”，而是指“为……提供理由，解释说明”的意思，其英文释义为：to supply good or lawful grounds for，warrant；其同义词有show sufficient grounds for，countenance，confirm，show cause excuse，explain。purview在此的意思也不能简单地理解为中文所说的“范围”，而是特指某人或某事物所能够负责或控制的、有局限性的圈子，其英文释义为the extent or limit of control，activity，or concern。

本句前面的分句的结构就比较复杂：主语和谓语被长长的插入语分开；宾语assumption后面还跟了一个长长的同位语从句。后面的分句的结构更为难读，这主要是因为出现了一个“由import A into B转变成import into B A”这类的倒装结构。按照正常的语序，import之后应该紧接着其宾语hoary stereotypes ，但是因为在本句中这个宾语被长度惊人的定语［associated with the homemaking activities (that they presumed to have been the purview of women )］所层层修饰，为了避免句子的头重脚轻，作者把介词及其宾语into the new industrial order 提前，而import的宾语则被放到了句末。