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经济学人:西西莉·泰森-佳人绝世而独立(6)

One day, however, she had seen her mother in a line of black women waiting to be hired as maids. White people in cars drove slowly past, looking them over. America’s original sin of slavery seemed as sharp as ever. Even decades later racism still ran deep in the film and TV industries, despite the progress on the surface.
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然而，有一天，她看到母亲站在黑人女佣的队伍里，等待被人雇佣。开着汽车的白人慢慢地从队伍一侧驶过，打量着女人们。美国奴隶制的原罪似乎一如既往地深重。即使几十年后，种族主义观念仍然在电影和电视行业根深蒂固，尽管表面上看有所进步。

 

In 1977 she appeared as the hero’s mother in “Roots”, a TV series that told the story of an African boy, Kunta Kinte, sold into slavery in the South. It made a huge splash for a time. But there were still few parts for black actors unless these were “written black”, shoehorned into some white cliché of what her people were.
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1977年，她在电视剧《根》（Roots）中饰演男主角的母亲，这部电视剧讲述了一个非洲男孩昆塔·肯特被卖到南方当奴隶的故事。这部剧在一段时间内引起了巨大的轰动。但提供给黑人演员的角色仍然少得可怜，除非这些角色是“剧本写明要求黑人演绎”，这些角色被硬塞进一些白人对黑人种族的偏见里。

 

And they were still not considered automatically as leads, capable of carrying a film, or as actors of classic parts. She would have loved, herself, to play Ophelia. The role seemed closed to her. But where did anyone say Ophelia was white?
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结果，在超过3000个比正常突变品种大的突变品种中产生了3个有希望的突变系，它们有350-370微米长，正好填补了大小差距，而且比它们的祖先更多产。这两种特性使新品种成为了理想的鱼食，并且随后三年的研究表明它们是稳定的。哥斯拉或许是虚构的，但“辐射(谨慎使用)能创造出同类中的巨型怪”这一观点名副其实。外界仍然认为他们无法担当主角，不具备能力出演电影，或者难以成就经典的角色。她自己也很想饰演奥菲莉亚。这个角色似乎跟她很贴近。但是谁说奥菲莉亚就是个白人呢？

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1.make a huge splash 产生巨大轰动

Now she's made a huge splash in the American television show 'Civil Wars'.

现在她已经凭借美国电视剧《内战》而一炮走红。