Leon 4
1.Until that time my mind… which the color of the body denied.(ll.14-17)
2.Alice’
3.Her husband became “dark and handsome” (l.43)
4.My mother asked this: a woman who never got rid of any of her children, never cheated on
my father, was never a hypocrite if she could help it, and never even tasted liquor.(ll.54-57) We can translate this sentence as:我的母亲是这样一个女人：从来没有抛弃过任何一个孩子，从来没有对我的父亲不忠，只要能不虚伪就不虚伪，从来没喝过酒。然而就是这样一个女人问了这个问题（我难道不觉得白人就是比我们聪明，比我们漂亮，比我们优秀吗？）
5.Of course, the people who wrote the soap-opera scripts…beneath the ruffled cap (ll.62-66)
这句话是说，在那些肥皂剧里的黑人形象还是正面的，可是人们（尤其是我的母亲）从来不关注。
6.The singing of “We Shall Overcome”… in my ears”(ll.77-78)
这句话在翻译练习中，大家注意 “We Shall Overcome” 是一首流传很广的歌曲，在这里作者用借喻的方法，用这首歌曲比喻一种“相信黑人能够战胜困难取得运动胜利”的信念。有些黑人背叛了这种信念，他们脱离了运动的队伍。
7.He did not say that one day it will us …homes (ll.92-98)
这个长句子的根本意思是说Dr.King didn’t want the Black to revenge the White for all the
8.Alice Walker saw the real reason for struggling beyond the effort for daily bread.The real
Leon 8
Leon 8 When a Citizen Fights Back
1.Colin在事件结束以后的担心: 1）He worried about having inflicted real damages.
2) He worried about being sued.
3) He worried about causing racial discimanation misunderstanding.2.aumed command of the war on crime (L.4): took or undertook the leadership of the war against crime.
3.The level of criminal activity (L.12): rate
4.The man ran harder (L.58): faster
5.Without further reflection (L.76): thinking
6.Some of his cherished aumptions were in smithereens as well.(L.152): Some of his valued ideas were in pieces as well (such as his ideas of bringing back safety and racial justice to the city).
7.The ironic tone in the text: majestically (L.126)
