1.disobedience 违抗
A single act of rebellion or disobedience was often enough to seal a woman's fate.
仅一次反抗或不服从的行为在以前就往往足以决定一个女人的命运。
2.seamstress 女裁缝
Ana María does not want to be a seamstress like her mother but rather a schoolteacher.
安娜玛利亚并不想像妈妈一样做一名裁缝,她想成为一名教师。
3.demand 要求
Human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the shooting.
人权组织正强烈要求对这一枪击案进行调查。
4.What she was really tired of, she said, was accepting unequal treatment.
treatment对待
We don't want any special treatment.
我们不需要任何特殊待遇。
5.The group was working to oppose the mistreatment of black bus passengers.
mistreatment虐待
...issues like police brutality and mistreatment of people in prisons.
...类似警察施暴和囚犯受虐的问题。
6.It made racial separation illegal on city buses.
racial separation 种族隔离
Yet he had strongly defended racial separation for most of his political life.
但是在他大部分的政治生活中,他都极力为种族分离辩护。











