科尔曼在他早期的著作中对体育运动嗤之以鼻，他认为体育运动排挤了学校的学术使命。

Coleman in his early work held athletics in contempt, arguing that they crowded out schools' academic missions.

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如果体育运动真的破坏了美国学校的学术使命，我们就会看到体育运动和学术成就之间的负相关关系。

If it is true that sports undermine the academic mission of American schools, we would expect to see a negative relationship between the commitment to athletics and academic achievement.

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与此同时，黑人学生则陷入困境，他们面对的是更差的公立学校，种族隔离时期，在那里，他们唯一的使命就是学会如何做个好仆人。

Blacks, meanwhile, were dumped into inferior public schools whose mission during apartheid was to teach them to be servants.

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