The food environment that you're exposed to today is much different than when I was a boy.

你们今天所面临的食品环境,和我小时候的相比已经大相径庭

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So there is a kind of grammar of race that this boy is learning while he experiences language in all these other more visceral, family-oriented ways.

更直接地谈下去会有危险时,这男孩在学习地区或者种族语言,特有的表达方式，同时他的家庭影响也塑造着他的语言。

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Interesting. North of Boston, a great book that follows A Boy's Will, is a title that locates these poems in a specific place in northern New England.

很有趣吧，“波士顿以北“是在,“少年的意志之后“,它把这些诗歌的背景设置在新英格兰的北部。

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So what I want to do today is look closely first at the selections from Black Boy that I asked you to read and to look at those as a text and to ask ourselves what kind of story it is.

它们细微的差别,我先读部分《黑孩子》,先前我布置给大家去阅读,并思考几个问题,我发现了什么,故事是什么类型。

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