Obsidian is a kind of black glass formed when the heat of a volcano melts the silica material in sand.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Now when Black Boy was published there was a war bond advertisement on the back cover of the book.

当《黑孩子》出版时,战争债券的广告是附在书后的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I did two things: first thing I did when I got to Harvard, was to find out where the program for poor children was, and Black Panther Party was sponsoring.

当我到了哈佛之后，我做了两件事，首先我去找到为贫困学生设立的项目，而黑豹党提供了帮助。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When the northeast sky turned black and threatening A storm was blowing over Iceland.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

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

Rosa Parks and three other black people were seated in the middle area of the bus when a white person got on the bus and wanted a seat.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It is kind of haunting when you think it's only 1831 when he writes this, and that Civil War is still 30 years away: "Slavery brutalizes the black population and debilitates the white.

这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去,因为他写下这段话时才1831年,离开内战爆发还有30年时间,"奴隶制残害了黑人,也削弱了白人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The Lady in Black looked at it. She remembered the wave of anger that had come over her when she had reached out her hand and silenced the clock that night three months before.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Every major African-American writer of the twentieth century, at least until your lifetime, when black writers in this country are now born and raised in cities, in California or Minneapolis or New York or and in modern Atlanta and they come from all the same places other Americas do.

二十世纪的每一个主流的非裔美籍作家,至少到你们这一辈子所能接触到的,这个国家的黑人作家,现在,都生于城市长于城市,在加州,明尼阿波利斯市或者纽约市,或者现代亚特兰大,他们从和其他美国人来自同一个地方

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

One said the Jackson family was regarded as royalty when she was growing up, but the singer's many plastic surgeries made some believe he hoped to obscure his black identity.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

When they take the field against Brazil Friday at Cairo's International Stadium, the Black Satellites, as Ghana's Under-20 team is known back home, will be aiming for their first championship after two previous unsuccessful final appearances.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15