Despite coming from a poor black family, he earned degrees in mathematics and computing, and worked briefly for the navy as a rocket scientist.

尽管来着一个贫穷的黑人家庭，他仍获得了数学和计算机学位，并在海军部门作为火箭专家工作过一段时间。

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Cassius Clay was born on Jan. 17, 1942, in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky Though from a poor black family, he went on to become arguably1 the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.

卡修斯·克莱于1942年1月17日出生在实施种族隔离的肯塔基州路易斯维尔。虽然来自贫苦的黑人家庭，他仍然成为了一名可以认为是有史以来最伟大的重量级拳手。

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The “dream deferred” is not only that of a nation which is still struggling to close the gaps between black and white, and rich and poor, but, as the author asserts, also Mr Mbeki's own.

那个被延迟的梦不仅仅是仍在为消除黑白人种歧视、贫富差距而斗争的那个国家之梦，同时也是作者所说的，姆贝基自己的梦。

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But of course this is a poor, black child growing up in the South, and his expectations, what his mind can imagine, is always going to be greater than what the world can deliver.

但要记得，这个黑人穷孩子是在南方长大的，他的期待，他想象的东西，总好过现实。

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So his was a progression out of a very poor, Southern childhood, from a black family led by a single mother, to the circles in which Gertrude Stein moved in Paris.

从他在南方的贫穷的童年,黑人家庭的来历，单亲妈妈的抚养，到他一步步脱离这样背景,迈向葛楚德，史坦迁往巴黎后的圈子。

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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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If I was a poor black kid I would first and most importantly work to make sure I got the best grades possible.

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