美国黑人

Competing in the women's bobsleigh, Vonetta Flowers became the first black athlete to earn winter gold, while ice hockey player Jarome Iginla followed as the first black male winner.

在有舵雪橇比赛中，来自美国的女子运动员沃内塔弗劳尔斯成为第一位夺取冬奥会金牌的黑人运动员，而冰球运动员热罗姆则成为第一位夺得冬奥会金牌的男子黑人运动员。

It was also much distorted because of the white racists'prejudices and meanwhile, the Negroes often resorted to"a featherbed of resistance"to the inquisitive white anthropologists, so the authentic African American folklore, for a long time, remained a mystery to the outsiders.

他们的文化在白人主流话语中处于被定义的客体地位，由于定义主体的偏见而往往被曲解，同时黑人又用非暴力不合作的方式抵制白人人类学家猎奇式的研究，因此美国南方黑人民俗文化的"庐山真面目"很难为外人所知晓。

And the War Department appointed a black judge, William Hastie, as civilian aide on African-American affairs.

陆军部还提拔黑人老本杰明·欧·戴维斯上校为准将，任命黑人法官、华盛顿特区霍华德大学法学院院长威廉·海斯蒂为主管非洲裔美国人事务的副官。

Wilson's characters testify to the fact that the United States failed blacks after Lincoln abolished slavery and that the government's failure, made effective legally through Jim Crow laws and other lawful measures to ensure inequality, continues to effect many black lives.

威尔逊的字符证明一个事实，即美国未能黑人废除奴隶制后，林肯和政府的失败，取得了有效的法律通过吉姆克劳法律和其他合法的措施，以确保不平等，继续影响许多黑人的生活。

And all of this has built up frustrations in the Black community that makes the Black community throughout America today more ex- plosive than all of the atomic bombs Russians can ever invent.

所有的这些形成了黑人区里一切令人灰心的事情，令现时整个美国的黑人群体比俄罗斯所能够发明的原子弹更具爆炸力。

Ralph Ellison nimbly defends the blacks' humanity with his outstanding cultural vision, and his witty use of metaphors in language. He outdid the traditional literature focusing on moralistic propaganda by Mrs. Stowe, and the naturalistic protest fiction centering on hard boiled remonstration and violence by Richard Wright, firstly by speaking highly of the 191 century classic works by such white writers as Melville, Faulkner and Mark Twain, who showed humanistic spirit affirming the blacks' humanity, and secondly by making use of the highly symbolic arid subversive language both to represent negro's humanity and whites' inhumanity, and more importantly by probing into the universal human nature by alluding to the Riddle of the Sphinx, which demonstrates, in a broad sense, the author's humanistic concern for the living dilemma of the contemporary people and also his advocatory tendency to revive the humanistic spirit of the 19th century writers.

拉尔夫埃利森通过对梅尔维尔、福克纳和马克吐温等19世纪美国经典白人作家的作品解读，赞赏了这些作家在肯定黑人人性时表现出的人道主义精神；同时运用高度象征性和颠覆性的语言，展示了黑人的人性，揭示了白人的非人性；并通过"斯芬克斯之谜"典故的阐释，对普遍意义上的人性作了探讨，体现了作者对所有现代人的生存困境的关注，从而超越了以斯陀夫人小说为代表的注重道义宣传的传统文学，以及以理查德赖特的创作为代表的注重态度强硬的抗议与暴力表达的自然主义文学，体现出回归与提升19世纪人文主义作家人道主义精神的创作倾向。

However, he rightly says that an increasing number of blacks recognize the incongruity between "the vast potential of their lives" since the triumph of the civil-rights movement, and the insistence of many blacks "that America remains a racist purgatory in which all black effort is a Sisyphean affair that renders even just keeping one's head above water a victory."

然而，他正确的指出，越来越多的黑人认识到他们自身的巨大潜能和种族歧视仍旧存在学说（许多黑人坚决主张：美国仍然是一个种族炼狱，在哪里黑人所有的努力都将是徒劳无功的。

The Institute, which is now called Tuskegee University, was founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington, one of the foremost black educators in American history, and became one of the nation's most important black colleges.

该研究所，这是现在所谓的Tuskegee大学，成立于1881年的布克华盛顿，一个最重要的黑人教育家在美国历史上，并成为一个国家最重要的黑人大学。

Some Characteristics of Beloved as Black Womanist Writing Toni Morrison, the 1993 Nobel Prize Winner of Literature, is one of the most distinguished black woman writers in American literary canon.

关于《宠儿》中黑人女性创作特点的个案研究托尼·莫里森，一九九三年诺贝尔文学奖得主，是当代美国文坛一位著名的黑人女性作家。

"The number of Blacks in college, about 11%, just about equaled their relative proportion in the total population; and there was marked economic improvement among the middleclass Black Americans by the end of 1970s"

到70年代末，大学里黑人学生占百分之十一左右，正好相当于黑人在美国总人口里的比例，黑人中产阶级在经济上有了显著的改善。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。