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南非黑人区的生活: 母系；信仰；贫穷；下有对策

一坨粑粑引发的人性思考与恐慌

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Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says “We’re the same.” A language barrier says “We’re different.” The architects of apartheid understood this. Part of the effort to divide black people was to make sure we were separated not just physically but by language as well...

The great thing about language is that you can just as easily use it to do the opposite:convince people that they are the same...

If you’re racist and you meet someone who doesn’t look like you, the fact that he can’t speak like you reinforces your racist preconceptions: He’s different, less intelligent. A brilliant scientist can come over the border from Mexico to live in America, but if he speaks in broken English, people say, “Eh, I don’t trust this guy.” “But he’s a scientist.” “In Mexican science, maybe. I don’t trust him.”

However, if the person who doesn’t look like you speaks like you, your brain short-circuits because your racism program has none of those instructions in the code. “Wait,wait,” your mind says, “the racism code says if he doesn’t look like me he isn’t like me, but the language code says if he speaks like me he…is like me?Something is off here. I can’t figure this out.”

【熟词生义】

1.cause

something (such as an organization, belief, idea, or goal) that a group or people support or fight for

Their fathers were in exile, fighting for the cause.

I'm willing to donate money as long as it's for a good/worthy cause.

2.minute

very small

Everyone in the township bought things in minute quantities because nobody had any money.

There were minute particles of dust in the air.

The test detected minute amounts of contamination.

The equipment is able to detect the minutest errors.

3.airs

To have airs is to be condescending or arrogant — in other words, to act like you think you're better than other people. If you put on airs, you'll find it hard to make friends.

When we shit we forget our airs and our graces, we forget how famous or how rich we are.

※In British English, the phrase airs and graces describes an overly superior or proud way of behaving.

She's very rich, but she doesn't give herself any airs and graces. = She doesn't have any airs and graces. = She doesn't put on any airs and graces.

【词组】

1.ˈreckon with sb/sth

If you are a person/force to be reckoned with or a person/force to reckon with, you are someone who is strong and cannot be ignored.

The only semi-regular male figure in my life was my grandfather, my mother’s father, who was a force to be reckoned with.

They were already a political force to be reckoned with.

When he won his first three matches, the other players realized that he was a force/man to be reckoned with.

2.mother hen

a person who worries about, cares for, or watches over other people in a way that is annoying or unwanted

Sibongile was a powerhouse, a strong woman in every sense, big-chested, the mother hen.

a football coach who fusses over his players like a mother hen

3.live up to

If someone or something lives up to what they were expected to be, they are as good as they were expected to be.

He was trying to live up to this image of what he thought a husband should be, dominant, controlling.

He has found it difficult to live up to his name/reputation. [=to be as good/successful as people think he is or should be]

Their vacation didn't live up to their expectations. [=their vacation wasn't as good as they expected it to be]

4.scream bloody murder

to scream, yell, or complain in a very loud or angry way

I was in the yard and Dinky came running out of the house screaming bloody murder.

His political opponents screamed bloody murder when he was appointed to office.

5.bundle sb up (in sth)

If you bundle up, you dress in a lot of warm clothes, usually because the weather is very cold. If you bundle someone up, you dress them in a lot of warm clothes.

She’d sit in the kitchen next to the coal stove, bundled up in long skirts and head scarves, blankets over her shoulders.

After the coffee we bundled up and walked down to the river...

The next morning, Franklin and Eleanor bundled up the baby and carried him to New York...

I spent much of my time bundled up in sweaters in an effort to keep warm.

6.no accident

You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance.

The fact that I grew up in a world run by women was no accident.

It is no accident that the assistant he hired is so good-looking. [=he deliberately chose a good-looking person to be his assistant]

It is no accident that men fill most of the top jobs in nursing, while women remain on the lower grades.

7.hold sth together

If you hold a group of people together, you help them to live or work together without arguing, although they may have different aims, attitudes, or interests.

Women held the community together.

The coach hopes to hold the team together for at least one more season.

Her 13-year-old daughter is holding the family together...

...the political balance which holds together the government...

8.get through to

to make someone understand what you are trying to say

Yes, the Bible was not written in English, but the Bible came to South Africa in English so to us it’s in English. Which made my prayers the best prayers because English prayers get answered first. How do we know this? Look at white people. Clearly they’re getting through to the right person.

I feel I’m not getting through to some of the kids in my class.

9.add to this/that

Phrases likeadd to this/thatandadded to this/thatare often used informally to introduce a statement about something that makes a thing or situation better, worse, more important, etc.

Add to that Matthew 19:14. “Suffer little children to come unto me,” Jesus said, “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” So if a child is praying in English? To White Jesus? That’s a powerful combination right there.

We were given little time to finish.Add to thisthe fact that nobody helped us, and you can understand why we were angry.

We were short of money.Added to that, we were lost!

10.on the outs (with sb)

in an unfriendly or bad relationship:no longer friendly or together

My aunt and cousins would be there whenever she was on the outs with Dinky.

There's a rumor that she and her husband are on the outs.

She is on the outs with her husband.

Wilson is on the outs with his family because of his relationship with that woman.

11.roll out

to make (something that has been rolled into the shape of a tube) long and flat again

The adults each had their own foam mattresses, and there was one big one that we’d roll out into the middle, and the kids slept on that.

He rolled out [=unrolled] the sleeping bags.

12.aspire to sth/do sth

to want to have or achieve something (such as a particular career or level of success)

Sadly, no matter how fancy you made your house, there was one thing you could never aspire to improve: your toilet. There was no indoor running water, just one communal outdoor tap and one outdoor toilet shared by six or seven houses.

He says he never aspired to become famous.

little girls who aspire to play professional basketball

Both young men aspire to careers in medicine. [=both young men want to have careers in medicine]

people who aspire to home ownership [=people who want to own their own homes]

13.in the zone

in a state in which you feel confident and are performing at your

best

It takes a minute to get the first shit out of the way and get in the zone and get comfortable.

When I'm in the zone, writing is the most satisfying thing in the world.

14.dart around

+ adv./prep.to move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction

Her eyes were wide open, cloudy white and darting around the room.

Her eyes darted around the room, looking for Greg.

15.curl up

to lie or sit with your back bent forward and with your legs pulled up close to your body

Then I tiptoed back to the other room, curled up on the mattress on the floor, and pretended to be asleep.

She curled up on the couch for a nap.

It's a good night to stay home and curl up with a book and a cup of tea.

16.be none the wiser/not be any the ˈwiser

not knowing or understanding anything more about something;

to not know or find out about sth bad that sb has done

The shit was done, no outhouse involved, and Koko was none the wiser.

The investigation has been going on for months, and we're still　none the wiser about the true cause of the accident. [=we still don't know anything more about the true cause]

I've read the instructions, but I'm still none the wiser.

If you put the money back, no one will be any the wiser.

17.be dying for sth/to do sth

wanting to have do something so much that you do not want to wait

Koko, still blind, still stuck in her chair, was dying to know what was happening.

I’m dying for a cup of coffee.

We’re dying to meet your new boyfriend.

18.all hell broke loose

suddenly there was a lot of noise, arguing, fighting or confusion

Once my mom found the turd, all hell broke loose.This was serious.

•There was a loud bang and then all hell broke loose.

19.all hands on deck

used for saying that everyone must help because there is an emergency

It was all hands on deck, time for action.

There are 30 people coming to dinner tonight, so it's all hands on deck.

20.drive out

to cause or force (someone or something) to leave

The commotion didn’t stop there because when there’s a demon around, the whole community has to join together to drive it out.

They drove out the invaders.

The family was driven out of the neighborhood by rising real estate prices.

21.come clean

to tell the truth about what happened:to stop hiding the truth

I knew there was no demon, but there was no way I could come clean.

Eventually she came clean and helped the police recover the goods she'd stolen.

He's finally come clean about his role in the scandal.

It was time to come clean with my mother.

22.Honesty is the best policy.

〈ことわざ〉正直は最良の策

The hiding I would have to endure? Good Lord. Honesty was never the best policy when it came to a hiding. I kept quiet.

23.wrap up

to finish or end (something)

Eventually I wrapped it up and sat back down.

Let's wrap this meeting up.

The teacher quickly wrapped up her lecture toward the end of class.

The meeting wrapped up [=ended] at four o'clock.

Seeing Sticht was keeping him from his golf game, and he hoped they could wrap it up quickly.

24.subject sb/sth to sth

to cause or force (someone or something) to experience (something harmful, unpleasant, etc.)

When you pray, He stops and He takes His time and He listens, and I had subjected Him to two hours of old grannies praying when I knew that with all the pain and suffering in the world He had more important things to deal with than my shit.

They are suspected of subjecting their children to abuse. [=of abusing their children]

The test involved subjecting the sample to intense heat.

— often used as (be) subjected to

The prisoners were subjected to torture.

During the hurricane, many buildings were subjected to [=many buildings experienced] 100 mile-per-hour winds.

No one should have to be subjected to my uncle's bad jokes.

His argument was subjected to careful analysis. [=was carefully analyzed]

25.dub into

to replace the original recorded speech in a movie or television show with speech recorded in another language

When I was growing up we used to get American TVshows rebroadcast on our stations: Doogie Howser, M.D.; Murder, She Wrote; Rescue 911 with William Shatner. Most of them were dubbed into African languages.

He was hired to dub the dialogue for a foreign film.

— often used as(be) dubbed

The film was dubbed in/into French and Spanish.

an American movie dubbed into Italian