我常常跑到少数族裔居多的蓝领阶层居住区，竭力进行宣传，但是我不怕告诉你们，我经常碰壁。

I'd go into the heavily ethnic blue-collar areas and make my best pitch, but I could tell I was hitting a lot of stone walls.

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妈妈对我说：我不喜欢你们常常到那里去，这不安全，而且能告诉我你们到底往哪里跑么？

"I don't like you girls down there so much," my mother said. "It's not safe." Can't tell who you might run into.

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