As a result,white Americans are very much worried about their future,feeling that their American dream is coming to an end,feeling hopeless and hopeless.So they have a hostile attitude toward those whom they consider their competitors.
7、Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.
Talk show hosts and conservative commentators became famous through exposing so-called unreal incidents of racism and labeled reasonable discussion of unfair treatment of minorities as catering to excessive sensibility to minority causes or as racism against the whites.
8、It’s a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years.
The anger of the blacks and the resentment of the whites are not groundless.Both groups have legitimate concerns.Yet their anger is directed toward the wrong targets,thus hampering the solution of the issues which cause the anger.Neither side has come to see the problem.So a racial deadlock exists.
9、For the African-American community,that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past.
The black community should face and handle bravely the legacy of racial injustice of the past while at the same time should not feel they are being wrong all the time.
10、In the white community,the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community and current incidents of discrimination,while less overt than in the past,and these things are real and must be addressed.
For the whites,they should see clearly that the wrong done to the blacks in the past is a fact and subtle discrimination still exists today and should be solved properly.
11、We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she’s playing the race card,or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.
We cam jump on some remarks made by some Hillary supporters against me and use this to show that Hillary also appeals to whites to defeat me in the Democratic campaign or predict that while people would support John McCain,not because of his policy but because of his skin color. 12、Or,at this moment,in this election,we can come together and say,”Not this time.”
Or,now and here,the American people,black and white,Asian and Hispanic and Native American,can unite and reject the politics that produce division and conflict.
英译汉：
1、Legalized discrimination---where blacks were prevented,often through violence,from owning property,or loans were not granted to African-American business owners,or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages,or blacks were excluded from unions, or the police force,or the fire departments---meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations.
法律上认可的歧视---譬如说禁止黑人拥有房产，有时甚至采取暴力手段达到此目的，或是不给非裔美国人的企业主贷款，不让黑人购房者取得联邦房屋部门的抵押贷款保险，把黑人排除在公会、警察队伍或者消防部门之外---这意味着黑人家庭难以积累家产以传给后代。 2、And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods---parks for kids to play in,police walking the beat,regular garbage pick-blight and neglect that continue to haunt us.
无数的黑人社区缺乏基本服务设施---没有公园让孩子们玩，没有警察巡逻，没有定期的垃圾收集，不执行建筑规范---所有这些造成了暴力、挫折和无人监管的不断循环，至今仍让我们提心掉胆。
3、Just as black anger often proved counterproductive,so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze---a corporate culture rife with inside dealing,questionable accounting practices,and short-term greed;a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests;economic policies that favor the few over the many. 黑人的愤怒常常产生不了什么作用，与此相同，这些白人的愤怒也把注意力从挤压中产阶级的真正罪魁祸首身上移开---真正的罪人是充满内部交易的企业文化，很成问题的会计惯例，只顾眼前的贪婪心态，被院外集团和特殊利益集团把持的政府，以及关注少数而不顾多数人的经济政策.
4、Contrary to the claims of some of my critics,black and white,I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle,or with a single candidacy---particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.
与某些批评我的人所说的相反，不管这些批评者是黑人还是白人，我从来没有天真到认为单凭一个选举周期，或者一个候选人，特别是像我这样不完美的候选人，就能让我们超越种族分歧的问题。
5、But I have asserted a firm conviction---a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people---that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds,and that in fact we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.
但是我强调了一个坚定的信念---一个根植于我对上帝的信仰和对美国人民的信任的信念---如果我们共同努力，就能摆脱某些过去的种族伤痕。事实上，如果我们要沿着建设一个更完善的联邦这条路继续走下去，我们别无选择。
6、In the white community,the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community and current incidents of discrimination,while less overt than in the past,and these things are real and must be addressed.
在白人社区，建设更完善的联邦之路就是要承认困扰非裔美国人社区问题并不是黑人头脑中想象出来的，而是真实存在的；种族歧视的后遗症以及当今的歧视事件，虽然没有过去那样明目张胆，却是正是存在且必须要解决的。
7、In the end,then,what is called for is nothing more,and nothing less,than what all the world’s great religions demand---that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
说到底，我们所需要的，正是世界上各大宗教所要求的，不多也不少---己所不欲，勿施于人。 8、This union may never be perfect,but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.
联邦可能不是十全十美的，但一代代人的努力表明可以使其不断完善。
高级英语第三版第一册课后答案1,3,4,6,7,9,10
