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🚣🏿♀️黑人划龍舟?
A Member of the First All-Black High School Rowing Team in the U.S. Wants to Make Waves
來自全美第一支全非裔美國人組成的高中划船隊
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🚣🏾Growing up in the 1990s on Chicago’s violent West Side, Arshay Cooper often had his walk home from school punctuated by the sound of gunfire. To him, “crew” was another word for “gang.” One day in the fall of 1997, a rowing coach with the nonprofit Urban Options who was trying to launch a team at Mr. Cooper’s overwhelmingly African-American high school beckoned him toward a sleek boat and a rowing video display set up in the cafeteria. Mr. Cooper realized that “crew” could mean something else.
Arshay Cooper生長於二十世紀90年代暴力橫行的芝加哥西部,在他從學校返家的歸途經常被槍聲給打斷,對他來說crew就是另一個gang的同義詞。在1997年秋日的某天,非營利組織Urban Options的一名划船教練正試圖在Cooper身處非裔美國人佔多數的高中內組建一支隊伍,當時教練向他招手,示意他來到放在餐廳內一條流線型的船前,同時有著一支划船賽的影片播放著。Cooper這才理解到原來crew這個字也可以代表其他事物。
-punctuate: 打斷、中斷(所以punctuation就是標點、斷句)
-crew: 組員、機組員等,此作為成員的意思
-gang: 幫派成員
-beckon: (向…)招手、示意
-sleek: 平整的;線條流暢的
🏆He wound up joining what would become Manley Crew, the country’s first all-black high school rowing squad. In a new memoir, “A Most Beautiful Thing,” to be published June 30, Mr. Cooper credits the sport with transforming his life and those of his teammates, keeping them away from gang violence, focusing their studies and paving the way toward more promising futures.
他最終加入了後來成為曼利船隊的全美第一支全黑人高中划船隊,在即將於6/30出版的新回憶錄『最美的事』中,Cooper認為划船這項運動改變了他和隊友們的人生,使他們遠離幫派暴力並專注在學業上,並為他們鋪平了通往更好未來的康莊大道。
-wind up: (使自己)陷入、捲入,這邊解為最終自己的狀況…
-memoir: 回憶錄
-credit: 讚許、讚揚(動詞)
未完待續...
划船運動究竟跟黑人的處境有什麼關係呢?
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❓多益模擬題❓:
The captain ---- one of the ---- to his office.
beckoning, gangster
beckoned, crew
beckons, crow
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