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1、Slavery Gave Me Nothing to Lose,Unit 8 Section A,第七组,I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of that small village, Eatonville. For instance, I can sit in a restaurant with a white person. We enter chatting about any little things that we have in common and the wh
2、ite man would sit calmly in his seat, listening to me with interest.,At certain times I have no race, I am me. But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of mixed items propped up against a wallagainst a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discov
3、ered a pile of small things both valuable and worthless.,Bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since decayed away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower o
4、r two still with a little fragrance. In your hand is the brown bag.,On the ground before you is the pile it heldso much like the piles in the other bags, could they be emptied, that all might be combined and mixed in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A
5、bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first placewho knows?,In common 共同的共有的 In common parlance俗话说 照一般说法 In common use 通用,in the main 基本上，大体上 in general; on the whole,Her fellow students were in the main from wealthy back
6、grounds. 结果基本上是令人满意的。,她的同学大都来自富有的家庭。 The result is, in the main, satisfactory.,prop up 支撑，顶住，扶持 to prevent something from falling down by putting something else under or against it,He propped up his bike against a tree. 你不能老是指望你的同事们支持你。,他把自行车靠在一棵树上。 You cant always expect your colleagues to prop you
7、 up.,靠物质利益维系的友谊是不可能长久的。,The friendship propped up with material benefits finds no way to last.,Translation,But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of mixed items propped up against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow.,At certain times, sb. do / be sth. But in th
8、e main, sb. do / be sth. else. 有时候，某人，但从整体上讲，某人用于表述“某人的主流心态状态”。,有时候他会撒一些善意的谎言，但从整体上讲，他是一个值得信赖的人。,At certain times, he tells white lies. But in the main, he is a person worthy of trust,Translation,我有时梦想一夜成名。但我总体上认为没有超常的付出不会有非凡的成就。,At certain times I dream of becoming famous overnight. But in the main I believe there is no outstanding achievement without extraordinary effort.,Translation,知识回顾Knowledge Review,祝您成功！,
