The so-called "blood-fraction" laws of 1705 ruled that anyone who was at least 1/8 black — which meant one black great grandparent — could not be labeled white.

1705年所谓的“血统分数”法律规定，任何人只要有1/8的黑人血统——即有一位黑人曾祖辈——就不能认作白人。

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Neither Mr Chavez nor Mr Morales is from the "white" elites who, in caricature at least, have long ruled in the region.

查维斯先生和莫拉莱斯先生都并非来自白人精英阶层。这些白人至少像漫画所讽的那样长期统治着该地区。

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Last year he challenged the CIA for the right to appoint station chiefs abroad, but the White House ruled against him.

去年，他挑战中情局任命海外站长的权力，但是白宫并没有站在他一边。

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Mugabe rose to power after ousting the British-backed, white-ruled regime led by Ian Smith.

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He was in the Belgian army and had been a mercenary for the army of Rhodesia, the white-ruled precursor to Zimbabwe, and fought Marxist guerrillas, the newspaper said.

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Take the chief drafter of the Euston text, Norman Geras, a Manchester-based political scientist who grew up in white-ruled Rhodesia and still calls himself, with qualifications, a Marxist.

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