Highlights of this month's "The crack of dawn"
三页纸的演讲稿，刚开始觉得是完不成的任务。十天拆解慢慢读完了，挺有成就感的。
1. go down in history = to be remember by many people for having done something
2. Five score years = 100 years
3. Emancipation Proclamation = President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 解放黑人奴隶宣言
Declaration of Independence = 独立宣言
4. a great beacon light of 指引的灯塔
5. 曲终人散 When the song ends, people scatter
6. manacles of segregation 种族隔离的镣铐 对应 chains of discrimination
7. a vast ocean of material prosperity 当时美国物质发达的社会
8. dramatize, idolize, demonize, weaponize, socialize, realize, finalize, recognize, specialize
9. The elephant in the room 显而易见，却被忽视的问题
10. 延禧攻略，皇帝翻牌 being bedded by the emperor
11. promissory note = 期票 NSF = no sufficient funds
12. the unalienable rights 不可剥夺的权利
13. tranquilizing drug = 镇定药
14. quicksands = 流沙
15. solid rock = 坚实的基石 My factor is my rock老爸是我的靠山
16. children 读音 chill ...
17. sweltering summer 炎热的夏日
18. legitimate 合理的
19. a rude awakening 中的rude =unexpected
20. a rude PDA (public display of affection)晒恩爱
21. rightful place 对应 wrongful deeds
22. The end doesn't justify the means
23. long for = thirst of 渴求
24. did i butcher your name?
25. high plane 和 majestic heights 都指一种高度
26. degenerate 降级
27. physical force 和 soul force 对应， 身灵合一
28. engulf = (of a natural force) sweep over (something) so as to surround or cover it completely. 在这里指新形式温和的抗议运动涌入黑人群体
29. come to realize 里的come是一种强调，比直接用realize更强调这个过程
30. tied up和 bound to 呼应
31. There's no turning back 没有回头路
32. heavy with sth. If something is heavy with something else, it has a lot of it or is full of it: The trees were heavy with fruit. 口味重 I am heavy on salt.
33. mobility 流动性，寒门难出贵子，社会阶级的流动性 social mobility
34. ghetto 平民窟
35. New York 地名，重音在后
36. fresh off the boat 初来乍到
37. battered 形容词 破旧的 this is a battered house/car
38. dissident 持不同政见者
39. storms of persecution 对应 the winds of police brutality
40. veteran 老兵，老手，（诙谐）老司机
41. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive 苦其心志，劳其筋骨
42. slum = ghetto
43. To wallow is to roll about in something, as a pig wallows in mud or a billionaire wallows in money. wallow in mud 动物在泥中打滚 wallow in sorrows 沉湎于悲伤
44. 即兴演讲 improvise on the spot, make it up as he went along
45. self-evident = crystal clear, clear cut 不言而喻，显而易见 it goes without saying, everyone knows that, apparently
46. Don't judge a book by its cover, but by the content
47.皮肤白黑 fair, pale, dark, tanned
48. get sth out of your chest 比较即兴的
49. eloquent, power of language
50. nip something in the bud = suppress or destroy something, especially at an early stage.
51. racist 种族歧视者 sexist 性别歧视者
52. crooked 形容词和动词读法不同 牙不齐 crooked teeth
53. speak up for it, stand up for it 维护它
54. no-brainer = something that requires or involves little or no mental effort. = easy decision
55. come in handy
56. Old habits die hard
57. snow-capped = (of a mountain) having a covering of snow on the top. ironclad = covered or protected with iron. impossible to contradict, weaken, or change.
58. go-getter = an aggressively enterprising person.
59. make a mountain out of a molehill = is an idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behavior where a person makes too much of a minor issue. 小题大做
60. take everything with a grain of salt = To take a statement with 'a grain of salt' or "a pinch of salt" means to acknowledge it only, but continue to maintain a degree of skepticism.
61. any takers?
62. mushy cheesy
Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.