He said Obama was raised by his white mother in Indonesia and his white grandparents in Hawaii and his father who was from Kenya was not an American.

他说，奥巴马在印尼被他的白人母亲扶养长大。他的白人祖父母住在夏威夷，而他的父亲不是一个美国人，尽管他来自肯尼亚。

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I found myself sitting in a cabin between a Zulu couple from Soweto and a white mother taking her son to his first day at a boarding school near Cape Town.

我坐的包厢介于一对来自索韦托的祖鲁夫妇和一个白人母亲，带着儿子去开普敦附近的一所寄宿学校，这是小男孩第一天去学校。

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The bride's mother saw her lovely daughter dressed in beautiful white.

新娘的母亲看到她可爱的女儿穿上了美丽的白色婚纱。

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But I knew I was not really a White House reporter yet, because the woman holding my arm and smiling nervously was my mother.

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There is this social context of race relations whose grammar he is also learning, and I would just remind you of the passage where he starts to ask his mother about whether his granny is white or not.

一种来自家庭无可绘状的影响,当时社会的种族对立，对他学习的语言也有很深的影响,各位看一下当他问母亲,祖母是白人还是黑人？

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

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But it does: children with a white mother and a black father have an eight-point I.

NEWYORKER: None of the Above

Growing up in Providence, Gallagher lived with her single white mother, a strong woman with a belief in self-reliance.

WSJ: Ellen Gallagher, the Global Art Star | WSJ. Magazine May 2013

But he was the son of a white mother from Kansas and an African, rather than an African-American, father from Kenya.

ECONOMIST: Barack Obama