时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台4月


英语课

 


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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:


It is Friday, which is when we share conversations from StoryCorps. Today we hear from a father who sat down with his teenage 1 daughter for a difficult conversation about race. Calvin Burns has trouble getting 15-year-old Stepheni Bellamy to talk, something parents of teenagers everywhere can relate to. He hoped that doing a StoryCorps interview and sharing stories from his own teenage years might help. And you should know that their conversation includes a racial 2 slur 3.


CALVIN BURNS: Growing up in school, I was usually the only black kid. And a lot of times, I did feel left out. It was really tough, but I think it made me stronger, being the outsider.


STEPHENI BELLAMY: I can relate because, going to high school, there's not people just like me. There's mostly white people.


BURNS: How does that make you feel, being the only person there like that?


BELLAMY: Sometimes it's kind of hard because, like, in history, when we're talking about slavery 4 or something, a whole bunch 5 of people will just turn and look at me. And it makes me, like, say, yeah, I know. I'm black.


Have you ever been called the N-word?


BURNS: I've definitely 6 been called that. And I think back to the time when me and my friends - that's when we were like 12 years old - and some guys in a truck drove 7 close to us. And I can remember the guy saying, whoop 8, there it is, niggers. And the guys almost ran us over, and we were pretty upset.


Have you ever been called that word before?


BELLAMY: Yeah. Just recently, somebody called me that word. And some people, like, say go back to Africa or something like that.


BURNS: This is not stuff 9 I was aware of. I didn't know that kids like that existed at your school. Pheni, I want you to know that you're not what they've been told you're like. It just - it's kind of heart-aching (ph) to think about the stuff that I went through and you're still going through those same things. I want you to know that if you ever feel scared or if these sort of things happen in the future, I mean, I'm always there for you to talk to me about them.


BELLAMY: I don't know. I just never really like to talk about myself or things that, like, I go through.


BURNS: So do you think by not talking about it that it's going to get better?


BELLAMY: No, probably not.


BURNS: I think you've done more talking today than you have (laughter) in the last 12 months.


BELLAMY: Yeah.


BURNS: I really thank you for coming here with me and for getting outside your comfort zone. And I hope that we can have more conversations like this in the future. I love you.


BELLAMY: Love you, too.


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INSKEEP: That's Calvin Burns with his daughter Stepheni Bellamy in Denver, Colo. Their interview will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress 10.



adj.青少年的;十几岁的
  • His voice is very high for a teenage boy.对一个十几岁的男孩来说,他的嗓音很尖。
  • He is too old now for teenage parties.他年龄太大了,不适于参加少年聚会。
adj.种族的;种族间的;由种族引起的
  • We should have racial pride.我们应该有种族优越感。
  • He spoke out against racial discrimination.他声言反对种族歧视。
v.含糊地说;诋毁;连唱;n.诋毁;含糊的发音
  • He took the remarks as a slur on his reputation.他把这些话当作是对他的名誉的中伤。
  • The drug made her speak with a slur.药物使她口齿不清。
n.奴隶的身分,奴隶状态,奴隶制度
  • The Americans abolished slavery in 1863.美国于1863年废除奴隶制度。
  • He is in a state of virtual slavery.他实际上处于一种被奴役的状态。
n.串,束;群,帮
  • A bunch of girls was[were] sitting on the grass.一群女孩坐在草地上。
  • I received a bunch of flowers yesterday.昨天我收到了一束鲜花。
adv.一定地,肯定地;明确地,确切地
  • The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛,这个队肯定会输。
  • I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前,我一定回家。
vbl.驾驶,drive的过去式;n.畜群
  • He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.他以每小时60英里的速度开车。
  • They drove foreign goods out of the market.他们把外国货驱逐出市场。
n.大叫,呐喊,喘息声;v.叫喊,喘息
  • He gave a whoop of joy when he saw his new bicycle.他看到自己的新自行车时,高兴得叫了起来。
  • Everybody is planning to whoop it up this weekend.大家都打算在这个周末好好欢闹一番。
n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
  • He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
n.(代表)大会;(C-:美国等国的)国会,议会
  • There were some days to wait before the Congress.大会的召开还有几天时间。
  • After 18 years in Congress,he intented to return to private life.在国会供职18年后,他打算告老还乡。
学英语单词
'Aïn el Arbaa
actual presence
Adurelan
advice of bill accepted
air-operated
alizurol ruby
aminoshikimic
as-yet
ASACIDURIA
bacchanalian
bayazids
belt pipe wrench
bend a sail
board of education
burthen-
CAMPAZINE
caraculs
carees
Carex cremostachys
civil nuclear power
closure of freezing wall
coaxial probe
Cockcroft-Walton accelerator
colibacterin
colocating
convergent pencil
cyclophosphamides
darckness
defusing
dewlike
deworm
diathermize
displacement of resonance line
endurance limit, endurance strength
epithelium lentis
Esmarch tourniquet
Eupatolin
five-stars
gas-liquid flow
gastrofiberscope
Grumman
guestlist
half block
healds
height and distance
herediary form
holisms
ileocecal valves
impote
incandescent light bulb
inclined lattice
influent waste
initial ratio
J-chain
jackoffs
Kasmere L.
Kijo
kinematic coefficient of viscosity
loose-weave
luhmann
lummer
mass-circulation
mewys
Monosulfate
No Customary Deduction Clause
nonconjunction
over budget
parchable
polypeptidase
preQuranic
prestressed wire
pyrochemistry
rail grinding coach
rest allowance
rhingylls
rumblification
shaft pipe
shaum
shoulder-girdle
slag-inclusion
sprite crab
stabler
stamp box
stannous selenide
stranies
subcutaneous cauterization
suberin lamella
subluxate
terrain refer enced navigation system
test octane number
thermomagnetic conversion
this or that
time-output command
tosunder
township and village enterprise development zones
twostage combustion
uncleation
unfought
upper speed cone
wire triangle
with a spring
wornest