时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月


英语课

 


(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)


STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:


And it's Friday, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva grew up in the town of Marfa, Texas in the 1950s. And we have their story.


In the 50s, Marfa's schools were segregated 1. Latino children were sent to Blackwell Elementary. And for many, Spanish was their first language. Maggie and Jessi were among the students at that school. And they came to StoryCorps to recall the day their school banned students from speaking Spanish in a ceremony called the burial of Mr. Spanish.


MAGGIE MARQUEZ: I walked into the room. And the teacher - she said for us to get a piece of paper and write down, I will not speak Spanish in school. So I wrote down on a piece of paper, fold it up and gave it to her. All the teachers - they had a little cigar box and put the kids' little papers in there. And we all marched out to where the flag pole was.


JESSI SILVA: The whole school was there. And they already had this hole dug.


MARQUEZ: Yes. And then they put the box in there and covered it up.


SILVA: We had gone to family funerals before, so we understood that there was a funeral going on. But we didn't know why. And everybody was very quiet. When they buried Mr. Spanish...


MARQUEZ: ...They told us to go back to the classes, and we were not supposed to speak Spanish at all. So I told my friends (speaking Spanish) - nobody's going to stop me from speaking Spanish. And I didn't know the teacher was right behind me. And the teacher took me to the principal.


SILVA: And what happened there?


MARQUEZ: He swung that paddle. And I got three licks.


SILVA: Wow.


MARQUEZ: It was my first time. And I was hurting so I ran home. I didn't go to school for three days. I had big bruises 2. My dad - he wasn't happy because they were not supposed to have hit me. But he told me I needed to go back to school, and I needed to follow the instructions.


SILVA: Our parents always supported the teachers.


MARQUEZ: Yes.


SILVA: And I remember my dad said if you're in school, you just be obedient. Don't stir the waters. But I felt a loss. I felt like something was being ripped away from me. And I was only 6, yet I understood that something's wrong here.


MARQUEZ: I wanted to ask questions, but I just kept quiet. But now as I have grown older, if I see something that is not right, I'm going to speak.


SILVA: It was part of the past, but you learn things through the past.


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INSKEEP: Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva at StoryCorps in Marfa, Texas. So they had the burial of Mr. Spanish. Well, 10 years ago, a group of Blackwell alumni including Maggie and Jessi returned to the school grounds where they held a symbolic 3 ceremony to unearth 4 Mr. Spanish.



分开的; 被隔离的
  • a culture in which women are segregated from men 妇女受到隔离歧视的文化
  • The doctor segregated the child sick with scarlet fever. 大夫把患猩红热的孩子隔离起来。
n.瘀伤,伤痕,擦伤( bruise的名词复数 )
  • He was covered with bruises after falling off his bicycle. 他从自行车上摔了下来,摔得浑身伤痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The pear had bruises of dark spots. 这个梨子有碰伤的黑斑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.象征性的,符号的,象征主义的
  • It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
  • The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
v.发掘,掘出,从洞中赶出
  • Most of the unearth relics remain intact.大多数出土文物仍保持完整无损。
  • More human remains have been unearthed in the north.北部又挖掘出了更多的人体遗骸。
学英语单词
2-sec-butylphenyl-n-methylcarbamate
adelae
apurashokoru i.
Askyaran
audhumla
auricular branch
Ban Lang Khao
Ban Phon Tan
belmontite
bikini bottom
biotic ecotype
blasts it
bockhart impetigo
body wastes
Bong-Siemens process
break-even exchange rate
Bunratty Castle
c.c.r.
calorite
cash flow budget
certificate of departure port
chenille cutting machine
cholemic intoxication
churchliest
coarseness
computational methods
dentiaskiascope
diligere
dilution test
dorsulum
double load
double ripple
dry provisions
duodenoscopy
earnings records
EIV
engine local control
exterritorial juisdiction
f numbers
fibrinbioplast
fleech
forced tremor
fugitive flavo(u)r
fully-automatic compression machine
geometrizations
high resolution capacity
hypomelanoses
instrew
integrated access device
intensity function
killeth
kryptonated silica
lans
ligameata puboprostaticum
marshscapes
matched joint
microresistivity log
middle palatine nerve
Miercurea-Ciuc
Mlicrococcus pyogenes
multiplicative Abelian group
murohara
non-loaded line
norrie
Ocean Towage
official copy
out-of-process
Pasiniaxzide
phosphotungstic green
plain-speaking
platypoda
post-tussis
potanthus pava
pre-coded
preservation of
pygmy lamp
quinin valerate
retinotopically
Rosario, Ensenada de
sagredoes
saw-tooth milling cutter
sea urchin sting
short-horneds
slatland
spray marking
Stone transmission bridge
sucked into
superhurricane
swing up saw
telescope switch
tether
Thesprotian
tin printing oven
top needle
transfer-in with compensation
tubular apocrine adenoma
uncharged particle
unfunded liabilities
virtual desktop
window-shopping
xenon variation