The late African-American poet Langston Hughes said the word 'sums up for us who are colored all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America.'

美国已故诗人兰斯顿·休斯说，这个称谓凝聚了有色人种在美国被羞辱和奋起抗争的苦难岁月。

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They were in the next room and we could hear every word they said.

他们在隔壁房间里，我们可以听到他们说的每一句话。

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I want nothing said about this until I give the word.

没有我的命令, 谁对此都别发表任何议论。

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A newspaper in Boston,Massachusetts said the word came from a criminal whose name was Borghese.

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He said, "Saed." So we had actually learned the similar word, something Arabic So we learned a word that means happy in Arabic.

他说：“我是Saed“，我恰好,学了一个类似的阿拉伯语词,是阿拉伯语中代表高兴的词。

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He turned and said the word, "Sola." Immediately, a green Martian woman came close.

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Andy Woolley, from the National Union of Teachers, said the word free school is a "misnomer".

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In the email to the constituent, the MP for Worthing East and Shoreham had referred to the "whingeing self-serving poisonous bollocks that seems to have become your hallmark" and said the word unkempt was "eminently accurate".

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Had he said the word out loud?

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