来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第4集 第4集》

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  road and then gratuitously abused by the police-- echoes the earlier moment
  这个被警察在路上发现后虐待的赤贫者形象
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  when the policeman pushes his car off the road and down the hill.
  让我们想起之前警察把他的车挤落山崖的一幕
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  These are instances where police are using their power utterly on their
  在这些事件中 警察滥用权威施加武力
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  own authority, with seemingly no check, with excess force.
  毫无节制 行为过分
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  Remember again: this is the South.
  再次提醒 这里是南方
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  We all know that these kinds of violence, official violence,
  我们都知道这些暴力 警察暴力
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  were part and parcel of southern culture toward African Americans.
  正是南方文化中对待美国黑人的一部分
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  What I think O'Connor is doing here is taking some of that reality
  我认为奥康纳这里是把一部分的事实
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  and injecting it into Hazel's narrative. So, these are
  穿插进黑兹尔的故事里
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  the kinds of images that the Civil Rights movement really brought to light.
  这些就是民权运动真正想改革开化的东西
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  Here we see them in relation to Hazel.
  这里我们通过黑兹尔了解到了这些
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  But overt racism is there, too, and if you look on page 67 in
  但在南方还存在公开的种族主义