Race has functioned as something necessary to the construction of American character and quality in the creation of our national identity—American has been defined as "white".
在创造我们民族身份的过程中，种族对于美国人性格和品质的塑造起了至关重要的作用——美国人被定义为“白人”。
The black and white flag went down, and the race began.
黑白旗落下，赛跑开始了。
The race for the White House begins in earnest today.
为入主白宫而展开的竞选今天正式开始。
WHITE people tend to be nervous of raising the subject of race and education, but are often voluble on the issue if a black person brings it up.
提到种族和教育问题，白人们都会有些紧张，不过如果是一个黑人提起这个话题，白人们就会滔滔不绝。
More recently, an election this month to the Little Rock school board descended into an unseemly row about race because one candidate was white and the other black.
更近一点的，本月，小石城学校董事会的选举沦为一场不光彩的、事关种族问题的争吵，因为一个候选人是白人，另一个是黑人。
Sixteen per cent of white voters said that race had an influence on their decision-and almost half of those 16% suggested that they would not support Mr Obama in the general election.
16%的白人选民说种族对他们的选择有影响——这16%的人中几乎有一半说他们在大选中不会支持奥巴马先生。
One child in ten is now mixed race, which potentially means black and white twins will become far more common.
现在十分之一的孩子是混血人种，潜在的意思是一黑一白的双胞胎将会变得更加常见。
Yet he was also a "racialist" who believed in the superiority of the white race.
不仅如此，他还是位种族主义者，因为他信奉白种人是最越性的民族。
We may be able to decide whether someone is white only by seeing if they have none of the features that would mark them clearly as a member of another race.
只要一个人没有属于其他人种的明显的特征，我们就可以判断他是否属于白色人种。
My main guest that morning was Charlotte Fillmore, a one-hundred-year-old former White House employee who decades earlier had had to enter the White House through a special door because of her race.
那天上午的主要客人是100岁的前白宫雇员夏洛特·菲尔莫尔，几十年前，她因为自己的种族还只能从一个特别的门进入白宫。
That survey found that 55 percent of white voters believe race relations in the country are good at the present time, while only 29 percent of African-Americans feel the same way.
调查发现，百分之五十五的白人选民认为目前美国的种族关系是好的，而只有百分之二十九的非洲裔美国人有相同的感觉。
Mr Radelet thinks the race of the perpetrator makes little difference, but juries respond more vengefully when the victim is white.
Radelet认为罪犯的种族影响不大，但受害人是白人时陪审团复仇情绪更强。
It is a great speech about race, and race relations, particularly between black people and white people at the beginning of the 21st century.
这些关于种族和种族关系评论非常精辟，尤其对处在21世纪初的黑人和白人关系。
Yet along the way he found that white more than black, women more than men, and old more than young prefer a same-race partner.
但是在这过程中他发现白人比黑人，女人比男人，老人比年轻人更喜欢有一个同种族的伴侣。
Though its supporters are still mainly white, a third of its 60 members of parliament are now black or coloured (mixed-race), as were many of its candidates in these local polls.
虽然支持者仍然以白人为主，但是下议院60人中有三分之一是黑人或者是混血人，该党在本次大选中的其他候选人情况也是如此。
Some say this is a race America can't win. They're ready to wave the white flag and declare defeat.
一些人称这是一个竞赛，美国不可能获胜，他们已准备好挥舞着美国国旗，宣布投降了。
Compared with blacks, proportionally more men in other groups marry outside their race: for example, 38% of Asian American men and Hispanic men married white women in 2008.
和黑人相比，其他种族群的男性和外种族人结婚的比例要大得多：例如，亚裔美国男性和拉丁裔男性2008年与白人结婚的比率是38%。
Dr Gerome Breen of king's College London has been working in Brazil, a country in which 86 per cent of the population are mixed-race, whether they look white or black.
伦敦国王学院的杰罗姆·布林博士一直在巴西工作。那个国家86%的人口是混血族，不管他们看上去是黑还是白。
Race was once a bar to the clubs and drawing-rooms of respectable society. Now a black man is in the White House.
种族曾经是进入上流社会俱乐部和客厅的障碍，但是现在黑人已经入主白宫。
Talk about the hope of the white race.
要是说起白种人的希望，那就是非他莫属啦。
Mr. White will coach our team for the boat race.
怀特先生要来训练我们队以备战划船比赛。
In the past, Republicans often used race to make their opponents seem anti-white.
它还是重要，只是改头换面了而已。在过去，共和党拿种族做文章，使竞选对手看起来是反白人的。
The tribute paid him by sportswriter Jimmy Cannon—“A credit to his race, the human race”—sounds condescending now, but it reflected the impact that Louis had on white perceptions.
体育记者JimmyCannon称赞路易斯道，“这是他的种族的荣耀，也是全人类的荣耀。”现在我们听起来有点屈尊的意思，但这也反映出路易斯在改变白人认识方面的影响。
There was an impassable barrier between the white race and the one which they had reduced to slavery.
在白色人种和被他们奴役的种族之间有一道不可逾越的障碍。
There was an impassable barrier between the white race and the one which they had reduced to slavery.
在白色人种和被他们奴役的种族之间有一道不可逾越的障碍。
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