Standing at the entrance of the tunnel I could see ahead of me a darkness so absolutely black it seemed a solid.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

For a few weeks, I was able to recognize that people weren't looking at me as African American or black.

几周之后，我才发现，人们并非,把我当做黑人看待。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I mean, there's, like I said, a Polish neighborhood to, like, very like, you know, I guess, black neighborhood,

我的意思是说，有波兰住宅区，黑人住宅区，

布鲁克林的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Marcelo D2 has performed with famous American hip-hop artists such as will-i-am from the Black Eyed Peas.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

So I had only known people of color. I only knew black people or Nigros as we called ourselves then or we are called.

所以，我所认识的人,就只有黑人而已,那时我们自称“黑鬼“,大家也都这么叫我们。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is her picture. I went to a little black shelf that held a small picture of the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

I just come back with my black coffee and my double espresso mocha latte skinny frothed, except it isn't espresso.

我回到桌位上，双手拿着我的黑咖啡,和一杯双倍浓度无咖啡因少泡沫的穆哈咖啡，其实不是无咖啡因的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Nor do I wish to do so. I do not," Lincoln said, "wish to propose political and social equality between the white and black races."

VOA: special.2009.06.11

My friend Nassim Talib has just written a book about it called-- maybe I'll talk about that--called The Black Swan.

我的朋友纳西姆·塔利博刚刚写了一本书,叫做"黑天鹅现象",以后我会再讲到

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I haven't quite confirmed them yet, but probably a hotel ballroom-type scenario, black-tie event."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

There's a function in purple, there's a string in green, and in black I have the assignment statements.

还有个粉色的方法，绿色的字符串，赋值声明是黑色的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Years later,Black Elk said: "I did not know then how much was ended.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

There was the wonder I felt when I saw a brace of mountain like, spotted, black-and-white horses clopping down a dusty road through clouds of powdered clay.

我觉到很美妙,当我望见一大群如山般高大的，黑白斑点马压过土路,我觉到很快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Poet Walt Whitman gave this description: "I saw Mr.Lincoln, dressed all in black.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

said the Lady in Black,softly. "I don't know myself really.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Legend has him eating peasant food--cabbage soup, cabbage soup, porridge, meat with pickled cucumbers, ham and cheese, and kvass, which is a drink that I've actually tasted from fermented black bread.

据传他爱吃农家食物,诸如卷心菜汤,稀粥,腌黄瓜拌肉,芝士火腿和克瓦斯,这种酒由发酵的黑面包做成,我曾经尝过

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"I know! I know!" choked the Lady in Black.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Toni Morrison was speaking for black Southerners in that, I think, fantastic line in her novel Beloved which I know many of you've read because it's taught all the time but there's that marvelous little exchange at one point between Paul D and Sethe.

托尼.莫里森藉由她的小说《宠儿》中,用一句绝妙的句子表达了南方黑人的心声,我知道很多人都已经读过《宠儿》,因为这本书一直被当做教材,不过小说中男女主人公保罗和塞丝,有这么一小段触人心弦的对话

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I am a black woman.I'm free."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

As I told the teaching fellows, I had a colleague in those days who looked at me enviously and said he wished he had the black leather concession at the door.

我跟学生讲，有个同事特别羡慕我,希望自己的门上也有那样的黑色皮革。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"And so around the table, morning and night, I heard my mother and father and my sister discussing events involving black treatment in America.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

I lost my black marker but that doesn't matter.

我找不到黑色的笔了不过没关系

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And when I turned 16, I had it made into a ring and we discovered it was actually a star sapphire and not a black pearl.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

So I tried running a program in this little black and white window called GCC and we'll see it today working properly that is a so called compiler.

在一个名为GCC的黑色小窗口里,运行我们的程序,然后得出想要的结果,这就是所谓的编译器。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Sorry I had a fight in the middleof your Black Panther party.

VOA: standard.other

Well... what can I say... black music... It's all here.

我能说的，关于黑人音乐……全部都在这个地方了。

关于黑人文化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So,I think it is a big achievement for the Black Stars."

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

But even as black Baptist, I could have gone certain black Baptist and run out, because I must struggle against homophobia, and my profound love for gay brothers and lesbian sisters.

作为一个黑人浸信教徒，即使我去黑人浸信会，也会被赶走，因为我必须于恐同症作斗争，以及我对同性恋者们深深的爱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I stumbled out in to the black night sobbing, my legs wobbly from fear.

那一夜，我战战兢兢跌跌撞撞，地走出家门，哭着。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选