A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
肯定
Affirmative
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.
平权法案是一个很好的术语,用来描述在工作、就业、晋升、奖学金和大学录取等方面对更优秀的白人的种族歧视。
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
没有什么让我感到痛苦,这一点很重要,因为我认为这个社会中的少数民族和女性最终会因为缺少平权法案而感到痛苦。
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
没有屈服于受害者文化的黑人过去、现在和将来都过得很好——他们都是靠自己,没有施舍、平权行动和其他屈就的措施。
I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
我满怀信心地肯定,那些被认为死于痛风的人,大部分是死于药物,而不是疾病——这一说法得到了观察结果的支持。
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
怀特(姓氏)不仅仅是缺乏色彩;它是一种闪光的、肯定的东西,像红色一样凶猛,像黑色一样明确……上帝用多种颜色作画;但他从来没有画得这么华丽过,我差点说得这么华丽,当他画白色。