广播电视英语短句 第 118 课：种族平等-2

The book is set in the American South in the nineteen thirties. 该书描述了 20 世纪三十年代的美国南方。

But it was published fifty years ago, on July eleventh, nineteen sixty. 但直到 50 年前，也就是 1960 年 7 月 11 日，该书才得以出版。

It came out as the civil rights movement in the United States was gaining strength. 那时正是美国民权运动逐渐壮大的时期。

Laws and customs in the South, however, still kept blacks and whites mostly separated. 然而，美国南方的法律和传统大部分时候仍然把黑人和白人区别对待。

A mockingbird is a kind of gray songbird. 知更鸟是一种灰色鸣禽。