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4.BREAKING A BARRIER
4.打破壁垒
In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman approached a high school in Charleston, Mississippi,
1997年，演员摩根·弗里曼来到密西西比州查尔斯顿的一所高中，
and offered to pay for its senior prom on one condition:
并提出支付高中毕业舞会的费用，但有一个条件:
It had to be racially integrated, something that had never happened before in Freeman's hometown.
必须允许不同种族的人参加舞会，这在弗里曼的家乡从未发生过g8nG1EYxs%PM._,f_7A-。
The school board turned him down.
学校董事会拒绝了他7ufud-[N&%#+8p-M5r。

But when Freeman returned with filmmaker Paul Saltzman in 2008,
但当2008年，弗里曼与电影制作人保罗·萨尔兹曼一起回归时，
they agreed to hold the first interracial prom in the school's history.
他们同意举办学校历史上第一次跨种族舞会)|H()G5!MFWqL7F|kz&*。
Saltzman's documentary Prom Night in Mississippi, which followed the prom's development as well as local resistance to it,
萨尔兹曼的纪录片《密西西比的舞会之夜》关注了舞会的进展以及当地人对舞会的抵制，
was later nominated for a top prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
后来该纪录片提名圣丹斯电影节的最高奖项RRfZ|ar2Cl[y。

重点讲解

1.turn down 减小，关小，调低；拒绝
Would you turn down your radio a little?
把收音机关小一点好吗?
2.agreed to 不同意
Ultimately, I agreed to sell him the book for nine cents.
最终，我同意以九美分的价格将这本书卖给他Zop%7_p@i])Y*0eU;A。
3.top prize 头等奖
It won the top prize — the 2011 North American Car of the Year.
此车获得了最高奖——2011年北美最佳汽车OQ8L~zMiVDREi。
4.pay for 赔偿
We will not pay for your crisis.
我们不会为你们的危机付款%33Ws^-jUT8%(!!oav=h。

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