六级As she wrote in her description of the peacock flower," The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds to abort their children, so that they will not become slaves like themselves.

正如她在对孔雀花的描述中所写的那样，“那些没有受到荷兰主人善待的印度人，用这些种子让自己的孩子流产，这样他们就不会像自己一样成为奴隶。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级Phillis Wheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landowner John Wheatley in Colonial America.

菲利斯·惠特利是一名年轻的非裔美国奴隶，属于殖民地美国地主约翰·惠特利。

2013年12月听力原文

六级Early slaves were generally denied education, but Wheatley was allowed by her owner to study poetry, Latin and the Bible.

早期的奴隶通常被拒绝接受教育，但惠特利的主人允许她学习诗歌、拉丁语和圣经。

2013年12月听力原文

六级The black slaves from Guinea and Angola have demanded to be well treated, threatening to refuse to have children.

来自几内亚和安哥拉的黑奴要求得到良好的待遇，威胁要拒绝生育。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级According to data gathered by Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier, the most selective schools are more likely to choose blacks who have at least one immigrant parent from Africa or the Caribbean than black students who are descendants of American slaves.

根据哈佛法学院教授拉尼·吉尼耶（Lani Guinier）收集的数据，与美国奴隶后裔的黑人学生相比，最挑剔的学校更可能选择父母至少有一位来自非洲或加勒比的移民的黑人学生。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave to write books during the growing days of the Republic

惠特利可能是第一个，但在共和国成长的日子里，她不是唯一一个写书的奴隶

2013年12月听力原文

六级She was the first educated slave of John Whitley's.

她是约翰·惠特利的第一个受过教育的奴隶。

2013年12月听力原文

六级According to data gathered by Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier, the most selective schools are more likely to choose blacks who have at least one immigrant parent from Africa or the Caribbean than black students who are descendants of American slaves

根据哈佛法学院教授拉尼·吉尼耶（Lani Guinier）收集的数据，与美国奴隶后裔的黑人学生相比，选择最多的学校更有可能选择父母至少有一位来自非洲或加勒比的移民的黑人学生

2011年6月阅读原文

六级According to data gathered by Harvard Law School professor Lain Gainer, the most selective schools are more likely to choose blacks who have at least one immigrant parent from Africa or the Caribbean than black students who are descendants of American slaves.

根据哈佛大学法学院教授莱恩·盖纳收集的数据，与美国奴隶后裔的黑人学生相比，最具选择性的学校更有可能选择父母至少有一位来自非洲或加勒比海移民的黑人。

2011年6月英语六级真题

四级Where many businesses compete for the customers’ dollar, they cannot afford to treat them like inferiors or slaves.

在许多企业争夺客户的美元的地方，他们不能把他们当作下等或奴隶。

1999年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

考研Slaves, women and dishonored persons were not allowed to compete.

奴隶、妇女和不光彩的人不得参加比赛。

1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw—having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves.

于是，他雇了一位牙医，从奴隶的嘴里把九颗牙齿移植到他的下巴上。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings.

1998年提供的DNA证据在一定程度上刺激了他们，几乎可以肯定的是，托马斯·杰斐逊与他的奴隶萨莉·海明斯至少生了一个孩子。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves.

首先，南方无法割舍奴隶。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Owning slaves was “like having a large bank account,” says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.

《不完美的上帝：乔治·华盛顿、他的奴隶和美国的创造》一书的作者维恩塞克说，拥有奴隶“就像拥有一个庞大的银行账户”。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the “peculiar institution,” including a clause that counted a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation.

如果没有对“特殊制度”的保护，南部各州就不会签署宪法，其中包括一项将奴隶视为国会代表的五分之三的条款。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states.

一旦执政，杰斐逊就在1803年通过路易斯安那州购买案延长了奴隶制；这块新土地被划分为13个州，其中包括三个蓄奴州。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Still, Jefferson freed Hemings’s children—though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves.

尽管如此，杰斐逊还是释放了海明斯的孩子——尽管不是海明斯本人或他的大约150名其他奴隶。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after observing the bravary of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will.

华盛顿在观察了独立战争期间黑人士兵的英勇行为后，开始相信人人生而平等，他克服了亲属的强烈反对，在遗嘱中给予奴隶自由。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题