7月9日，纽约第五大道特朗普大厦前的路面被涂上了“黑人的命也是命”标语。有报道称，纽约市长白思豪也到场参加了涂鸦。
New York City is painting a Black Lives Matter mural on the street directly outside of Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan.
▌mural 壁画
City employees began painting a stretch of Fifth Avenue, just in front of the Trump Organization's headquarters, on Thursday morning. Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized the stark yellow mural earlier this month.
The New York mayor rolled up his sleeves and painted a bit of the mural, too, clad in a mask and flanked by civil rights leader, the Rev. Al Sharpton.
"President Trump said we would be denigrating the luxury of Fifth Avenue. Let me tell you: we're not denigrating anything, we are liberating Fifth Avenue, we are uplifting Fifth Avenue," de Blasio said on Thursday in response to Trump's tweet last week criticizing de Blasio for "denigrating" the area.
▌denigrate 贬低，诋毁
He added, "Who built this city, who built this nation, and never got the acknowledgement, the recognition..."
"When we say 'Black Lives Matter' there is no more American statement, there's no more patriotic statement, because there is no America without Black America. We are acknowledging the truth in ourselves and in America. By saying 'Black lives matter' we are righting a wrong," de Blasio said.
▌patriotic 爱国的
President Donald Trump fumed at the plan after it was announced by city officials earlier this month.
▌fume 发怒；生闷气
He called the words "Black Lives Matter" a "symbol of hate" and suggested that police officers could block the work: "Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won't let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York's greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!"
▌scorn 轻视，鄙视；轻蔑地拒绝；不屑接受
CNN has reached out to the Trump Organization for comment.
The mural marks the second time the words appeared in large letters outside one of Trump's homes; Washington's mayor had the term painted in large yellow letters on a street near the White House last month.
The murals haven't pleased all Black Lives Matters supporters.
After the debut of the Washington mural, the local chapter of the Black Lives Matter Global Network called the mural a "performative distraction from real policy changes." Black Lives Matter supporters have repeatedly called on local leaders to cut police budgets, which DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has cautioned against.
New York's city council this month voted to slash the NYPD budget, though even supporters of defunding the police on the council were not satisfied with the budget cuts, which still allowed for two police classes to join the force while freezing new hires in the Department of Education.
▌slash 大幅削减，大幅减少（金钱、工作等）
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