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Negro
ni:gro
黑人 可数名词
manacle
/'mænək(ə)l/
可数名词 n. Manacles are metal devices attached to a prisoner's wrists or legs in order to prevent him or her from moving or escaping
vt.
His hands were manacled behind his back...
他的双手被铐在了身后。
He was manacled by the police.
他让警察给铐了起来。
segregation
/ˌsegrɪ'geɪʃ(ə)n/
ADJ.
complete
彻底的隔离
racial, religious, residential, sex, social
种族/ 宗教/ 居住地域/ 性别/ 社会隔离:
to bring an end to sex segregation within the school 结束学校内的性别隔离
[搭配]VERB + SEGREGATION
practise
奉行隔离政策
[搭配]PREP.~ between
…之间的隔离:
Partitions provided a segregation between the smoking and non-smoking areas of the canteen.
隔断把餐厅分成了吸烟区和非吸烟区。
~ by
根据…进行的隔离:segregation by race 种族隔离
~ within
…内部的隔离
chain
/tʃein/
复数名词
If prisoners are in chains, they have thick rings of metal round their wrists or ankles to prevent them from escaping
He'd spent four and a half years in windowless cells, much of the time in chains.
他已经在没有窗户的牢房里呆了4年半，多数时间都戴着镣铐。
You can refer to feelings and duties which prevent you from doing what you want to do as chains .
He had to break right now the chains of habit that bound him to the present.
他必须现在就打破把他束缚在当前境况的习惯。
discrimination
/dɪ,skrɪmɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n/
不可数名词
Discrimination is the practice of treating one person or group of people less fairly or less well than other people or groups.
She is exempt from sex discrimination laws.
她免受性别歧视法的追究。
//...discrimination against immigrants.
对移民的歧视
//...measures to counteract racial discrimination.
抵制种族歧视的措施
poverty
不可数名词 Poverty is the state of being extremely poor.
According to World Bank figures, 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolute poverty...
根据世界银行的统计数字，41%的巴西人生活在赤贫中。
Garvey died in loneliness and poverty.
加维在孤独和穷困中死去。
单数名词 You can use poverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor
Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition.
英国一直缺乏远大理想。
//...a poverty of ideas.
思想贫乏
midst
/mɪdst/ 这个发音我总是发错
介词 If someone or something is in the midst of a group of people or things, they are among them or surrounded by them.
Many were surprised to see him exposed like this in the midst of a large crowd...
许多人看到他像这样暴露在一大群人中间都非常吃惊。
vast
Something that is vast is extremely large.
//...Afrikaner farmers who own vast stretches of land...
拥有广袤土地的南非白人农场主
material
/mə'tɪərɪəl/
adj. : Material things are related to possessions or money, rather than to more abstract things such as ideas or values
Every room must have been stuffed with material things.
每个房间肯定都塞满了东西。
//...the material world.
物质世界
//...his descriptions of their poor material conditions.
他对他们贫困的物质生活的描述
prosperity
/prɒ'sperɪtɪ/
Prosperity is a condition in which a person or community is doing well financially.
//...a new era of peace and prosperity.
和平繁荣的新时代
//...Japan's economic prosperity.
日本的经济繁荣
languish
If someone languishes somewhere, they are forced to remain and suffer in an unpleasant situation.
Pollard continues to languish in prison...
波拉德继续受牢狱之苦。
No one knows for certain how many refugees wander the world today, or languish in camps without a permanent place of settlement.
无人清楚如今有多少难民在到处流浪，或有多少人流离失所，在难民营里受苦。
exile
/'eksaɪl/
可数名词，被流放者
dramatize
/ˈdræməˌtaɪz/
If a book or story is dramatized, it is written or presented as a play, film, or television drama.
//...an incident later dramatized in the movie 'The Right Stuff'.
后来被改编成电影《太空先锋》的事件
//...a dramatised version of the novel.
小说的改编剧版本
shameful 记得是丢人的
shameful 是“可耻的”，不是“感觉羞耻的”，说“感觉羞耻的”该用 ashamed。如假定某人有了可耻的行为，因而感觉羞耻，可以说 Jones is ashamed of his shameful conduct。
背诵
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the > manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in > the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American > society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
仿写
句型：
The life of the X is still sadly crippled by the manacles of Y and the chains of Z .
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