| 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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