Jim Crow

Jim Crow

美 [ˌdʒɪm ˈkroʊ] 　英 [ˌdʒɪm ˈkrəʊ]

• n.（美国社会过去对黑人的）种族歧视
• 网络对黑人的蔑称；克劳；黑人隔离法

英汉双解

英汉解释

na.

1. 【机】弯轨机

英英解释

n.	1. in the U.S., unfair treatment of African-Americans, especially in the past, by the use of laws that prevented them from going to the same schools and public places as white people

例句

"Every American who doesn't want to see an apartheid Jim Crow society return will come to our side, " he predicts.

他预测，“任何不希望倒退到种族歧视年代的人，将和我们站在一起。”

It took a brutal civil war to end slavery and federal troops to topple Jim Crow.

这个国家发动残酷的内战终结了农奴制，动用联邦军队摧毁种族隔离制度。

Southern Democrats filibustered to keep the segregationist Jim Crow laws alive.

南部地区的民主党人阻止了分裂主义的克劳法继续生效。

Later, Duke told me how, when he was touring the deep South from 1934 to 1936, he sidelined Jim Crow.

后来，公爵告诉我当他在1934年至1936年南方旅行时怎样避开了吉姆克劳法。

For some black women, a white husband brings bad memories of slavery and Jim Crow.

对于一些黑人女性来说，白人丈夫会带给她们关于奴隶和吉姆•克劳（对黑人的贬称）称号的痛苦回忆。

This way, he avoided the grasp of Jim Crow laws, and commanded respect for his band and music.

这样一来，他们便可以避开种族隔离法律，为自己的乐队成员和音乐保留尊严。

My father grew up in the segregated south, in Charleston, under Jim Crow laws that didn't allow blacks to vote.

我的父亲成长于种族隔离情绪严重的南部城市查尔斯顿，在那里，黑人隔离法（JimCrowlaws）禁止黑人参与投票。

But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South.

但是在南方的黑人中没有法律。

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

吉姆？克劳的奇异生平