I didn't expect him so impolite. He refused to give up a seat to an old man.

我没想到他会这么没礼貌，竟拒绝给老人让座。

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Politeness towards women is less observed today than it used to be, but it is still considered polite to give up a seat to a woman, to open doors for her and also help her alight from the bus.

虽然现在对女士的礼貌已不能同以前相比，但给女士让座、替女士开门、扶她们下车仍然是人们认可的礼貌规矩。

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After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, the city's black residents set out to rally on her behalf.

1955年12月1日，阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市的罗莎·帕克斯拒绝在隔离巴士上为白人让座而遭到拘捕后，当地的黑人居民团结一致支持她的行为。

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Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Who inspired the Montgomery bus boycott after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man?

CNN: Newsquiz: Week of February 4

The event took place five years before Rosa Parks energized the civil rights movement on Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala.

NPR: StoryCorps Griot: Devoted to Social Justice

The last person to be expelled from this house was 55 years ago - in 1954 - and it remains the case that members can be sentenced to prison for up to a year without being required to give up their parliamentary seat.

BBC: In full: Constitution proposals