大学英语综合教程 第三册 2textB

[00:00.00]come a long way                 with each passing year/day/week guarantee                       result from
[00:06.60]进展            一年一年地      保证            因…而发生
[00:13.19]commitment                      against(all)the odds            remarkable                      in the midst of
[00:18.16]承诺            尽管极为不利    显著的          在…之中
[00:23.12]recovery                        in this context                 flourish                        remedy
[00:26.50]恢复            在这种情况下    繁荣            纠正
[00:29.88]be subjected to                 discriminate                    enforce                         play up
[00:34.55]使遭受          歧视            实施            鼓吹
[00:39.21]at best                         unlike                          do well(to do sth.)             grave
[00:50.05]Jesse Jackson,a well-known leader of black Americans,reviews the progress they have made in recent years.
[00:57.50]Despite this,he argues,there is still much left to be done before they enjoy full equality.
[01:04.50]THE DREAM,THE STARS AND DR.KING’  Jesse Jackson
[01:10.58]Last week in Memphis,we commemorated the death of Dr.Martin LUther King.
[01:16.67]He was struck down 27 years ago--not a dreamer,but a man of action.
[01:23.54]We have come a long way since then,in part as a fruit of his labors.
[01:29.78]2 In less than30 years,as schools opened and ceilings lifted,a large African American middle class has been created.
[01:39.21]High school graduation rates,even intelligence test results,grow closer between whites and blacks with each passing year.
[01:48.75]3 The civil-rights movement that Dr.King led also helped women gain greater opportunity.
[01:55.64]The same laws that guarantee equal opportunity for African Americans apply to women,to other minorities,to the disabled.
[02:05.47](1)Our society benefits as fewer of its people have their genius suppressed or their talents wasted.
[02:13.49]4 We have come a long way--but we have far to go .Commission after commission,
[02:20.20]report after report,show that systematic discrimination still stains our country.