1. I had come the night before, a black and cold night before-as it was expected to be in the middle of January, though I didn't know that at the time — and I could not see anything clearly on the way from the airport, even though there were lights ever
    我是昨夜到这里的，那是个漆黑、寒冷的夜晚——一月中旬就该是这样的天气，可我那时并不知道这一点——虽然到处都有灯，可从机场出来的一路上我什么都看不清楚。

2. I stayed for dinner which was cooked in a black iron wok (锅) over the furnace.
    我留下来吃了晚饭，饭是在火炉上那个黑色的铁锅里煮的。

3. I own a black gun with a brown handle. It holds five bullets and stays loaded by my bed.
    我有一支黑色手枪，手柄是棕色的。手枪就搁在我的床头，里面装着五颗子弹，并且总是上了膛的。

4. I imagine standing in a gas station on Claiborne and Jackson waiting to pay the cashier when a black man walks up behind me.
    于是我转过身，既愤怒又恐惧，还未及细想就开了枪。我也许只是因为五十或一百美元就杀了一个人。

5. I do not turn around. I stare ahead waiting to pay. I try not to reveal I feel anxiety just because a black man has walked up behind me in a gas station in a bad neighborhood and he does not have a car.
    他曾试图抢劫我，可这一点并不重要。一个人因为钱而死，不一定是我的钱或者是他的钱，就是钱。是谁给他的生命如此标价的呢？

6. I remember driving one night with my friend in her parents' automobile. We stopped at a red light at Carlton and Tulane where a black man was crossing the street in front of us.
    现在我走进了我家附近的一家加油站。一个黑人已经在排队等侯。他突然跳起来并转过身，在看见我以后才放松下来，对我说我吓着他了，因为这一带常出事。

7. I climbed into the back-seat of the world's hottest jet fighter, the F-16.
    我登上世界上最新式的喷气式战斗机F-16的后座，

8. I remember the very day that I became black.
    我清楚地记得我成为黑人的那一天。

9. It is exclusively a black town.
    小镇的居民全是黑人。

10. I was not Zora of Eatonville any more; I was now a little black girl.
    我再也不是伊顿维尔的佐拉了，我现在成了个小黑妞。