In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

  • -- Christopher Darden 克里斯托佛达登

事实上,一些评论家说,当他们读到这个故事的时候,他们忘记了主角是一位黑人女性。他们被这个故事所感动——被人们作为一个整体所感动——而不是被一些小事所感动。

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Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

死亡过去常常在生命的壮年宣布它自己,但现在人们拖得太久了,有时我们似乎到了不得不宣布死亡的时候。就好像一个人死的时候需要一种特殊的力量,而不是最终的弱点。

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

但愿我是一口枯井,愿百姓向我扔石头,因为这比成为干渴人经过而不喝的泉源还容易。

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

有一种方法可以让年轻人接受他们即将死去这一不可避免的问题,而年纪稍大一点的人或许可以克服这个问题。

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

没有人比女人更懂得怎样既温柔又深沉地说话。

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

信女人的,就是信骗子。

Don't treat me like a little girl.

别把我当小女孩看待。