美国国家公共电台 NPR--2 Charlottesville, Va., residents remember the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally

2 Charlottesville, Va., residents remember the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally

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Five years ago a car slammed into a crowd of counterprotesters. One person was killed and a dozen injured. Lisa Woolfork was in that crowd. She remembers that day with her friend Kendall King-Sellars.

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LEILA FADEL, HOST:

Time now for StoryCorps. Five years ago today, hundreds of white nationalists converged² on Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a Confederate monument. The Unite the Right rally turned deadly when a car rammed³ into a crowd of counterprotesters. One person was killed. A dozen others were injured. Fifty-two-year-old Lisa Woolfork was in that crowd. She came to StoryCorps to remember that day with her friend and fellow Charlottesville resident Kendall King-Sellars.

LISA WOOLFORK: My grandmother, who was still alive in 2017, was born in 1913, the same year that Harriet Tubman died. And it really galled⁴ me - I would have to tell my grandmother that I was prepping to go down to a Klan rally to resist the Klan. And I knew how dangerous all of this was. But it felt to me important as a mother to try to be out here now so that my children won't have to be out here later.

KENDALL KING-SELLARS: Right.

WOOLFORK: You know, up to that point, I had been sewing with a group of older white ladies where, no matter how old I was, I was always the youngest, and I wasn't even young. When my father died unexpectedly, they made me a quilt. When my babies were born, they made me a quilt. But after the attacks, someone said to me, well, Lisa, it's been told that Charlottesville is not to be discussed. So many people wanted to just ignore it, as if ignoring it was the solution. And it's only a solution because it wasn't a problem for them. About three or four days later, I get an envelope in the mail, and it is my check that I have paid for the next gathering⁵. And I really felt like I'm no longer welcome. I was so hurt.

KING-SELLARS: Of course.

WOOLFORK: But I think that there's also a lot of bright spots because we got so many no's about trying to get rid of the statues, and those statues are gone. But we are still here.

KING-SELLARS: Yeah.

WOOLFORK: And that counts for a lot.

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FADEL: That's Lisa Woolfork with Kendall King-Sellars for StoryCorps in Charlottesville, Va. Lisa is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and now runs her own sewing group, Black Women Stitch. Their conversation has been archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 converged   

v.（线条、运动的物体等）会于一点( converge的过去式 )；（趋于）相似或相同；人或车辆汇集；聚集

参考例句：

• Thousands of supporters converged on London for the rally. 成千上万的支持者从四面八方汇聚伦敦举行集会。
• People converged on the political meeting from all parts of the city. 人们从城市的四面八方涌向这次政治集会。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 rammed   

v.夯实（土等）( ram的过去式和过去分词 )；猛撞；猛压；反复灌输

参考例句：

• Two passengers were injured when their taxi was rammed from behind by a bus. 公共汽车从后面撞来，出租车上的两位乘客受了伤。
• I rammed down the earth around the newly-planted tree. 我将新栽的树周围的土捣硬。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 galled   

v.使…擦痛( gall的过去式和过去分词 )；擦伤；烦扰；侮辱

参考例句：

• Their unkind remarks galled her. 他们不友善的话语使她恼怒。 来自辞典例句
• He was galled by her insulting language. 他被她侮辱性的语言激怒了。 来自辞典例句

5 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。