时代周刊:美国种族问题"光说没有用"(3)

It doesn't stop there. Black children remain more likely than white ones to attend high-need, low-performing schools, low-quality preschools, and high schools that offer few if any college-prep courses.

它并没有停止。黑人孩子仍然比白人孩子更有可能进入需求高、表现差的学校、质量差的幼儿园，以及很少有大学预科课程的高中。

The Black homeownership rate in the first quarter of 2021 was 29 percentage points lower than that of white Americans.

2021年第一季度，黑人的住房拥有率比白人低29个百分点。

When Black Americans do own homes, those properties are often undervalued by appraisers.

当美国黑人拥有自己的房产时，这些房产往往被估价师低估。

That disparity—not saving, spending or even earnings—drives the bulk of the nation's massive Black-white wealth gap.

正是这种差距——而不是储蓄、消费甚至是收入——导致了美国巨大的黑白贫富差距。

Black Americans are also more likely to live in "nature"-deprived areas than white Americans and experience more exposure to pollutants¹.

美国黑人也比白人更有可能生活在“自然”匮乏的地区，也更容易接触到污染物。

Black incarceration² rates continue to outpace those for all other groups, and the effort to restrict Black voter participation³, which has been a part of American politics since Reconstruction⁴, has resurged today.

黑人的监禁率持续超过其他所有群体，而限制黑人选民参与的努力，自重建以来一直是美国政治的一部分，今天又重新兴起。

And yet, just as was the case when Myrdal was working, many of those in power have the temerity⁵ to express total shock about those vast racial disparities,

然而，就像默达尔工作时的情况一样，许多当权者对巨大的种族差异表示非常震惊，

to confuse the causes of inequality with its effects, and to question what, exactly, is wrong with Black Americans. Or Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans—take your pick.

混淆了不平等的原因和后果，并质疑美国黑人到底出了什么问题。或者是拉美裔美国人，亚裔美国人，印第安人——随你挑。

As distinct as the Black experience is, so many communities throughout the U.S. have their own parallel set of facts.

尽管黑人的经历很独特，但美国各地的许多社区都有着相似的事实。

These problems are not products of the long pandemic.

这些问题并不是由长期的大流行导致的。

But many were made worse, and perhaps the copious⁶ concern about being "woke" to inequality (or deeply opposed to anything like it) has hitched⁷ a fast ride on the virus to the cultural forefront.

但许多人的情况变得更糟了，也许对不平等的“觉醒”(或强烈反对任何类似的事情)的大量担忧搭上了病毒的快车，来到了文化的前沿。

Corporations that only years ago reached massive settlements with the U.S. government for engaging in what federal officials alleged⁸ was widespread discrimination have released carefully worded statements declaring that Black lives matter.

几年前，一些公司因为联邦官员所称的普遍歧视而与美国政府达成大规模和解，如今这些公司发表了措辞谨慎的声明，宣称黑人的生命很重要。

Promises have been made. They will have to be tracked.

承诺已经做出，他们必须被监督。

In the interim⁹, the Dear Black, Latino, Asian employees, we see you and feel your pain email after a horrible event in the news has become a new genre¹⁰ of corporate¹¹ communication.

在此期间，“亲爱的黑人、拉丁裔、亚裔员工，我们看到了你们的处境，感受到了你们的痛苦”，在一个可怕的新闻事件发生后，电子邮件成为了企业沟通的一种新的方式。

The very same impulse is also a feature of a certain set's social media feeds and the launching point for thousands of online lists of goods created by people of color, to be bought by those who wish to understand themselves as good.

同样的冲动也是某一组社交媒体的一个特征，也是成千上万的有色人种创建的在线商品清单的起点，这些商品被那些希望能更好地了解自己的人购买。

1 pollutants   

污染物质（尤指工业废物）( pollutant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Pollutants are constantly being released into the atmosphere. 污染物质正在不断地被排放到大气中去。
• The 1987 Amendments limit 301(g) discharges to a few well-studied nonconventional pollutants. 1987年的修正案把第301条（g）的普通排放限制施加在一些认真研究过的几种非常规污染物上。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

2 incarceration   

n.监禁，禁闭；钳闭

参考例句：

• He hadn't changed much in his nearly three years of incarceration. 在将近三年的监狱生活中，他变化不大。 来自辞典例句
• Please, please set it free before it bursts from its long incarceration! 请你，请你将这颗心释放出来吧！否则它会因长期的禁闭而爆裂。 来自辞典例句

3 participation   

n.参与，参加，分享

参考例句：

• Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.有些魔术要求有观众的参与。
• The scheme aims to encourage increased participation in sporting activities.这个方案旨在鼓励大众更多地参与体育活动。

4 reconstruction   

n.重建，再现，复原

参考例句：

• The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
• In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。

5 temerity   

n.鲁莽，冒失

参考例句：

• He had the temerity to ask for higher wages after only a day's work.只工作了一天，他就蛮不讲理地要求增加工资。
• Tins took some temerity,but it was fruitless.这件事做得有点莽撞，但结果还是无用。

6 copious   

adj.丰富的，大量的

参考例句：

• She supports her theory with copious evidences.她以大量的例证来充实自己的理论。
• Every star is a copious source of neutrinos.每颗恒星都是丰富的中微子源。

7 hitched   

（免费）搭乘他人之车( hitch的过去式和过去分词 )； 搭便车； 攀上； 跃上

参考例句：

• They hitched a ride in a truck. 他们搭乘了一辆路过的货车。
• We hitched a ride in a truck yesterday. 我们昨天顺便搭乘了一辆卡车。

8 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

9 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

10 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

11 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。