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PhrasesWhite lie : harmless or trivial lie，esp．one told in order to avoid hurting sb．Black sheep : person regarded as a disgrace or a failure by other members of his family or group.A want of : a lack of Ringing call : rallying call To keep time: to keep the right rhythm .Month of Sundays: in a long time . In the swim : in the current fashion . Off base : mistaken.1．The job of arousing manhood within people that have been taught for many centuries that they are nobody is not easy .It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans，the same as any other people．2．To upset this cultural homicide , the Negro must rise up within an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood . If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists，if you really respect yourself，thinking that you are a Man，equal to anyone else，you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination．3．…wi th a spirit straining toward true self-esteem , the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abne gation…The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself／herself．Only when he／she is fully convinced that he／she is a Man／Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he／she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free．4．What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive , and love without power is sentimental and anemic .Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power．5．It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.At that time，the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was)．6．Now early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong．7．The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind , the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought , is not done to secure a living.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done , because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed．8．…it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth.…when the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with．9.Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority.Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God．Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven．10．Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice .Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination．1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images , trying each one on for size.I imagined myself as different types of prodigy , trying to find out which one suited me best .2. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts .I had new thoughts , which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion.3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was Shirley Temple-like, slightly rude but in an amusing way.4. I felt like worms and toads and slim things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.When I said those words, I felt that something nasty had got out of my chest, and so I felt disgusted. But at the same time I felt good and relieved, because those nasty thoughts had been suppressed in my heart for a long time and now they had got out at last.5. And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over.I could feel that her anger had reached the point where she was at the very verge of losing her self-control. I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery and her dreams.1. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.I believe following passing crazes shows a complete lack of sound judgment.2. One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis.One afternoon, when I went back to my dorm, Petey was lying on his bed. He wore such a depressed look that I came to the conclusion at once that he was suffering from appendicitis.3. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is as precise as a chemist’s scales, began to work at high speed.4. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.She was beautiful and attractive enough to arouse the desires and passions of men, but I would not let my feelings or emotions control reason or good sense.5. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.She was not yet fully developed like pin-up girls but I felt sure that, given time, she would fill up and become just as glamorous.6.In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she went in the opposite direction. This is a sarcastic way of saying that she was rather stupid.7. If you were out of the picture, the field would be open.If you’re no longe r involved with her others would be free to compete for her love.8. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.His head turned back and forth. Every time he looked, his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker.9.This loomed as project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey.To teach her to think appeared to be a very big task, and at first I even thought of giving her back to Petey.10.There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is a limit to what any human being can bear.1. My father would bring the team down Fifth Avenue at smart trot, flicking his whip over the horses’ rumps and making the bells double their lights, thin jangling over the snow, whose radiance thew back a brilliance like the sound of bells.My father caused the horses to move quickly down the road, hitting their hind part with a light, quick blow. The bells rang lightly and quickly, but not necessarily harmoniously, over the snow, which in turn threw back a brightness that was like the sound of bells.2. It always troubled me as a boy of eight that the horses had so indifferent a view of their late friend appearing asa warm overcoat on the back of the man who put the iron bit in their mouths.I was puzzle d as a little boy over the horses’indifference towards their dead friend, whose hidehad now turned into my father’s overcoat. It was hard for me to understand why the horses didnot know or care that the overcoat came from the hide of their friend. And the same man had also put a metal bar in their mouths to control them.3. There would be an occasional brass-mounted automobile laboring on its narrow tires and as often as not pulled up the slippery hills by a horse, and we would pass it with a triumphant shout for an awkward nuisance which was obviously not here to stay.On our way, from time to time, we would come across a car moving slowly and carefully overthe packed snow. It had difficulty climbing up hills, which were slippery with the snow, so itwas often pulled up by a horse. The clumsy automobile was out of place and the high rankingofficials sitting inside it just wanted to show off.4. ...the body heat of many animals weighting a thousand pounds and more, pig in other corner making their dark, brown-sounding grunts...The smell of quite a number of big and strong animals was very strong. At the same time, since the barn was filled with animals, it was also warm. Pigs were uttering deep, gloomy, and5. It give him a better appetite, he argued, than plain fresh air, which was thin and had nobody to it .With so much content and life in it, the rich odor of the barn appealed to my father much betterthan mild fresh air, which, according to him, was weak and lacked substance.6. ...and as many ant hurried I could smell in her apron that freshest off all odors with which the human nose is honored ------bread straight from the oven.My aunt had been baking some bread for the purpose of making the oven ready for the cooking of the meat. As she passed by, I could smell the most delightful of all smells that of the freshly baked bread.7. For days after such an ordeal they could not endure biting into a carrot .During the confinement, since there was nothing for them to do or eat, they helped themselves freely to carrots, and now they were fed up with carrots.8. My uncle kept a turmoil of food circulating, and no refuse any of it was somehow to violate the elevated nature of the day.It was a state of confusion because various dishes were kept going. It would be against the holypurpose and elated mood of Christmas to refuse any food passed to you.9.The men sat there grimly enduring the glory of their appetite .The men overate themselves to such a degree that they could not move about and had to sit there, suffering from eating to the full capacity of their stomachs.10. ...where already the crimson cardinals would be dropping out of the sky like blood.…the cardinals were deeply and vividly red, so when they swooped down on the feeder, theywere like drops of blood out of the sky.Translate1. 背叛从公司偷窃之后，他被剥夺了爵士头衔。