what had happened in Stalin's Soviet Union,

统治下的前苏联抱有幻想
and his partner, Simone de Beauvoir,

还有他的配偶西蒙娜·德·波伏瓦
who's terribly important in the rise of feminism,

她在女权运动的推广中有举足轻重的地位
as I'm sure you know,

我相信你们都知道
she came to the U.S. in 1947--she had been in 1947--

她在1947年来了美国
and she liked the sort of dynamism of the American economy, and she liked its freedom,

她非常喜欢美国经济的活力和自由
but she was immediately suspicious of racism in the United States,

但是她马上开始怀疑美国存在种族歧视
in the 1940s and the 1950s, as indeed in our own time,

在二十世纪四五十年代还有我们现在
sadly, though not as much,

虽然有所进步但可悲的是
was a time of racism;

确实是种族歧视的时代
and she said so, she came right out and said,

她就这样直言不讳地说
and that became a part of the anti-American discourse.

然后这件事就成为反美主义论题的一部分