But because she does not have a birth certificate, she was rejected.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

She reads a little Henry James because she thinks that makes her a better writer, somehow, but she doesn't quite know how.

她读过一点亨利，詹姆斯的作品,因为她认为那样会让她,成为一个更好的作家，但是，她却不知道怎么去做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What you could call institutional evil by somebody behaving cruelly toward somebody else, perhaps not due to malice but because of the situation that she's in.

你可以将此称作,机构性邪恶,产生于某人残忍地对待他人,或许不是出于恶意,而是由于她所处的境况而导致

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But the school would not let her attend classes with other students because she was African-American.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Some of you-- some of the population of the United States are not going to vote for somebody because he or she is black but they won't tell you but they know it to be true.

你们有些人…,美国当中有些人,不会投某些人一票,因为她或他是黑人，但他们不会说出来,但他们很清楚这是他们的真实想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But she says she began to love him because he was a nice man.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Experts say she is remembered not only for the quality of her voice, but also because of the way she carried out her right to be heard.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

But black groups in Montgomery considered her to be the right citizen around whom to build a protest because she was one of the finest citizens of the city.

VOA: special.2009.03.08