Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

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They have a very big, lots of races and it's called Royal Ascot because the Queen attends.

他们有许多比赛，然而，它之所以叫皇家赛马会，是因为女王会观场。

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When she speaks about it, when she attends functions, and dinners and things like that,

当她提起这个时，当她出席社交集会时，或者出席晚宴等诸如此类的活动时，

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