Some black clergymen said that if black people were supposed to have straight hair, God would have given it to them.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

He's a black man, and he passes for his whole life as Jewish, and in doing so rejects his family.

他是黑人，并以犹太人的身份度过一生，这样做受到了家人的反对。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I mean, there's, like I said, a Polish neighborhood to, like, very like, you know, I guess, black neighborhood,

我的意思是说，有波兰住宅区，黑人住宅区，

布鲁克林的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

Langston Hughes's poetry comes out of this experience in a community of black intellectuals and artists it created specifically in Harlem.

休斯的诗歌灵感来源于他曾经在一个,有着大量黑人知识分子和艺术家的社区的居住经验,在哈莱姆居住时的影响尤为明显。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

At the National Gallery of Art, visitors can see black and white photographs taken by Robert Frank during the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

She is a woman who looks very white but is categorized as black in that system of the South.

事实是，她虽比较白,但还是一个南方的黑人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So did the local police. The next day more than sixty black students took every seat at the lunch counter.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

My stepfather was a former priest, one of the early black men ordained to the priesthood in the United States.

我的继父原先是一名牧师，是美国早期参与到,牧师事业中的黑人之一。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about 12 years old ran into the room.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

I just come back with my black coffee and my double espresso mocha latte skinny frothed, except it isn't espresso.

我回到桌位上，双手拿着我的黑咖啡,和一杯双倍浓度无咖啡因少泡沫的穆哈咖啡，其实不是无咖啡因的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In nineteen thirty-two, the MacMillan Publishing Company agreed to help them create a collection of folk songs, especially from black Americans.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Anyway, the Black Sea is not a Greek lake, but there are Greek cities that are spotted along the coast.

不管怎样,黑海不是古希腊的湖泊,除了东海岸

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He left the cold, black shadow of the lander and stepped into the blinding white light of the sun.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

As I told the teaching fellows, I had a colleague in those days who looked at me enviously and said he wished he had the black leather concession at the door.

我跟学生讲，有个同事特别羡慕我,希望自己的门上也有那样的黑色皮革。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They are a black man named Joe Christmas, and a former minister,John Hightower, who has lost his belief in God.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

It's going to let us bury away the specifics of something, and treat that computation like a black box. And by black box, I mean, literally behaves like a mysterious little black box.

通过抽象我们可以将一些细节,掩埋起来并将这一段计算当成黑盒,说到黑盒我的意思就是,字面上的像一个神秘的小黑盒。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Yet she wanted to do more. She hoped to establish a school for black pilots in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

In some ways the most distinctive literature America has is a kind of Southern literature, white and black.

在某种程度上,美国最有特点的文学,就是一种南方文学,关于白人和黑人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"Not even this much." This resistance did not stop government efforts to get the Black Hills for the miners.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

it's this paper mend with a plastic cover and there's all these black magnetic particles here.

它是用这种纸以及一种塑料覆在上面,这里还有一些黑色磁性粒子。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips,had been looking for a white performer who could sing black rhythm and blues.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

3% of black school children in fourth grade are left behind proficiency levels.

做了评估，其中，在四年级的黑人孩子里,63%阅读能力较差，58%的西班牙孩子。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Its large rooms and affordable rent gave middle class black people a new kind of housing opportunity in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

And even in astrophysics, when you talk about stars, black holes, etcetera you're moving energy around.

即使在天文学中，当你谈论恒星，黑洞等时,你能量的转移。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Teaching at Howard gave Duncan the chance to share his knowledge of classical European music with a mainly black student population.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

So, if you use a black lamp or something and you excite something up to a higher energy level and then it relaxes back down to its lower energy state, it's going to emit a new wavelength of light, which is going to be visible to you.

如果你用一个紫外灯或别的,东西把某种分子激发到,更高的能级，然后它会掉回,到低能级，它就会释放,一个新的波长的光,这个光是可见的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Michael Jackson brought attention to his body's movements by wearing a shiny white glove, shortened black pants and white socks.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

So, you end up going through life assuming that there are no black swans.

于是你从生活中得出结论,黑色的天鹅是不存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You've had Film Experience and Black Cinema ? Was that taught here?

你上了黑人电影史这门课,是这里的课么？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选