由于陷入沉思中，他差点撞上了前面那辆车。

Lost in thought, he almost ran into the car in front of him.

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温斯顿·丘吉尔也是如此，他差点从英国一所精英学校哈罗公学退学。

So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school.

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他差点没赶上火车。

He only just caught the train.

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And concomitantly a second reason is that that Civil Rights revolution also brought, through its process, a huge discovery at the same time of Northern racism, when Martin Luther King brought the movement to Chicago and nearly got killed doing it.

还有第二个理由就是,民权运动的经过也带来了一个大发现,那就是北方的种族主义,当马丁路德金把运动带到了芝加哥,他差点因此丧命

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