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词组 colored
释义 colored
      Janis 1984 notes that black and Negro are preferred to colored and the Oxford American Dictionary suggests that colored is sometimes offensive. The term was, some years ago, a common, relatively neutral term used to refer to black Americans. The reasons for its falling into relative disuse are not entirely clear, but there is no question that it has happened:
      I was "colored" until I was 14, a Negro until I was 21 and a black man ever since —Reggie Jackson, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 11 May 1987
      Aside from specialized references to South Africa, most of our evidence for colored as a term of racial reference refers to a time in the past:
      White Morrisonville's hog-meat diet hadn't prepared me for terrapin soup. I hurried back across the road giggling to my mother that colored people ate turtles —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982
      Once in a while it may be still found in neutral reference:
      She reminds people of the beauty of being colored. Katoucha is African —Vogue, February 1985
      See also black.
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