来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第13集 第13集》

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  So, one of the most prestigious novels of the nineteenth century
  十九世纪最有威望的几部小说之一
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  is of course Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin,
  就是哈里特·比彻·斯托的《汤姆叔叔的小屋》
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  a hugely successful novel, abolitionist novel
  一部获得巨大成功的宣扬废奴主义的小说
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  whose aim was to create a sense of the slave's humanity for white readers
  它向白人读者展现了奴隶的人性
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  so that white readers would become inspired to the abolitionist cause.
  以获得他们对废奴运动的支持
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  What was repulsive about that novel to someone like Morrison
  但对莫里森这类人来说 她们厌恶这部小说中描述的
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  is the starched white virtue and the starched white culture
  非裔美国人所遵循的
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  to which the African American characters in the novel were recruited.
  刻板的白人社会美德和文化
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  So, in that novel, their humanity and the sympathy that that would evoke from the reader
  在小说中 他们是否能被白人读者的同情
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  depended on their looking as white as possible,
  取决于他们是否长得更像白人
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  and therefore there was this great privileging of the light-skinned black in that novel
  因此 书中的浅色皮肤的黑人更为受益
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  and a sense of Christian value redeeming the darker-skinned characters.
  并且小说宣扬基督教的爱可以拯救深肤色的人