[00:00.00] snatch strap tug lose one's balance

[00:06.95]一把抓住 皮带 用力拉 失去平衡

[00:13.90]take off (at)full blast stoop frail

[00:23.00]突然离去 全速地 屈身 弱的

[00:32.10]in contact with get/be through with pop furnish

[00:40.02]与…有接触 结束 突然地活动 配备家具

[00:47.93]switch on drip dash get/have...in common

[00:57.67]打开 滴 急奔 共有

[01:07.40]grab/take/catch hold of behave oneself at the rear(of)

[01:22.89]He did not trust the woman to trust him. And he did not trust the woman not to trust him.

[01:32.37]And he did not want to be mistrusted now.

[01:36.47]THANK YOU,MA’M Lanqston Huqhes

[01:40.73]She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but a hammer an nails.

[01:47.57]It was about eleven o’clock at night, dark, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind her

[01:55.67]and tried to snatch the purse. The strap broke with the sudden single tug the boy gave it from behind.

[02:03.56](1)But the boy’s weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance.

[02:09.99]Instead of taking off full blast as he had hoped, the boy fell on his back on the sidewalk

[02:17.30]and his legs flew up. The large woman simply turned around and kicked him right square2 in his blue-jeaned sitter.

[02:27.62]Then she reached down, picked the boy up by his shirtfront, and shook him violently.

[02:34.36]2 After that the woman said, “Pick up my pocketbook, boy, and give it here.”

[02:40.99]3 She still held him tightly. But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse.

[02:48.15]Then she said, “Now ain’t you ashamed of yourself?”

[02:52.56]4 Firmly gripped by his shirtfront, the boy said, “Yes'm.”

[02:57.58]5 The woman said, “What did you want to do it for?”

[03:01.63]6 The boy said, “I didn’t aim to.”

[03:04.92]7 By that time two or three people passed, stopped, turned to look, and some stood watching.

[03:11.95]8 “If I turn you loose, will you run?” asked the woman.

[03:16.36]9 “Yes’m,” said the boy.

[03:19.31]10 “Then I won’t turn you loose,” said the woman. She did not release him.

[03:24.46]11 “Lady, I’m sorry,” whispered the boy.

[03:28.25]12 “Um-hum! Your face is dirty. I got a great mind to wash your face for you.

[03:34.83]Ain’t you got nobody home to tell you to wash your face?”

[03:39.14]13 “No’m,” said the boy.

[03:42.07]14 “Then it will get washed this evening,”said the large woman,starting up the street,dragging the frightened boy behind her.

[03:50.37]15 He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and thin in tennis shoes and blue jeans.

[03:57.43]16 The woman said, “You ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong.

[04:03.20]Least I can do right now is to wash your face. Are you hungry?”

[04:08.35]17 “No’m,” said the boy, “I just want you to turn me loose.”

[04:13.88]18 “Was I bothering you when I turned that corner?” asked the woman.

[04:18.61]19 “No’m.”

[04:20.34]20 “But you put yourself in contact with me,” said the woman. “(2)If you think that contact is not going to last a while,

[04:28.12]you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir,

[04:32.95]you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”

[04:38.33]21 Sweat popped out on the boy’s face and he began to struggle. Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him around in front of her,

[04:47.63]put a half-nelson about his neck and continued to drag him up the street. When she got to her door,

[04:55.63]she dragged the boy inside, down a hall, and into a large furnished room at the rear of the house.

[05:03.10]She switched on the light and left the door open. The boy could hear other roomers laughing and talking in the large house.

[05:11.20]Some of their doors were open, too, so he knew he and the woman were not alone.

[05:17.54]The woman still had him by the neck in the middle of her room.

[05:21.96]22 She said , “What is your name?”

[05:25.25]23 “Roger,” answered the boy.

[05:28.49]24 “Then, Roger, you go to that sink and wash your face,” said the woman, turning him loose—at last

[05:36.69]Roger looked at the door—looked at the woman—looked at the door—and went to the sink.

[05:44.92]25 “Let the water run until it gets warm,” she said. “Here’s a clean towel.”

[05:51.82]26 “You gonna take me to jail?” asked the boy, bending over the sink.

[05:58.74]27 “Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere,” said the woman.

[06:03.96]“Here I am trying to get home to cook me a bite to eat, and you snatch my pocketbook!

[06:09.97]Maybe you ain’t been to your supper either, late as it be. Have you?”

[06:14.94]28 “There’s nobody home at my house,” said the boy.

[06:18.93]29 “Then we’ll eat,” said the woman. “I believe you’re hungry—or been hungry—to try to snatch my pocketbook!”

[06:27.00]30 “I want a pair of blue suede shoes,” said the boy.

[06:31.52]31 “Well, you didn’t have to snatch my pocketbook to get some suede shoes,”

[06:36.77]said Mrs. Luella Bares Washington Jones. “You could of asked me.”

[06:42.02]32 “Ma’m?”

[06:43.77]33 The water dripping from his face, the boy looked at her. There was a long pause.A very long pause.

[06:52.66](3)After he had dried his face and not knowing what else to do, dried it again, the boy turned around,

[06:59.81]wondering what next. The door was open. He would make a dash for it down the hall. He would run, run, run!

[07:10.13]34 The woman was sitting on the daybed. After a while, she said, “I was young once and I wanted things I could not get.”

[07:19.64]35 There was another long pause. The boy’s mouth opened. Then he frowned, not knowing he frowned.

[07:28.29]36 The woman said, “Um-hum! You thought I was going to say but, didn’t you? You thought I was going to say,

[07:37.09]but I didn’t snatch people’s pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say that.” Pause. Silence. “I have done things, too,

[07:48.35]which I would not tell you, son—neither tell God, if He didn’t already know. Everybody’s got something in common.

[07:56.89]Sit you down while I fix us something to eat. You might run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable.”

[08:04.81]37 In another corner of the room behind a screen was a gas plate and an icebox.

[08:11.02]Mrs. Jones got up and went behind the screen. The woman did not watch the boy to see

[08:18.23]if he was going to run now, nor did she watch her purse, which she left behind her on the bed.

[08:25.31]But the boy took care to sit on the far side of the room, away from the purse,

[08:30.80]where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner of her eye if she wanted to.

[08:36.88](4)He did not trust the woman to trust him.

[08:40.10]And he did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now.

[08:47.28]38 She heated some beans and ham and set the table. The woman did not ask the boy anything about where he lived,

[08:55.17]or his folks, or anything else that would embarrass him. Instead, as they ate,

[09:02.22]she told him about her job in a hotel beauty shop that stayed open late, what the work was like,

[09:09.25]and how all kinds of women came in and out, blondes, redheads and Spanish. Then she cut him half of her ten-cent cake.

[09:19.46]39 “Eat some more, son,” she said.

[09:22.65]40When they finished eating,she got up and said,“Now here,take this ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes.

[09:31.14]And, next time, do not make the mistake of grabbing hold of my pocketbook

[09:36.26]nor nobody else’s—because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. I got to get my rest now.

[09:45.22]But from here on in, son, I hope you will behave yourself.”

[09:49.58]41 She led the way down the hall to the front door and opened it. “Good night! Behave yourself, boy!”

[09:58.28]she said, looking into the street as he went down the steps.

[10:03.01]42 The boy wanted to say something other than “Thank you, ma’m,” to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones,

[10:10.25]but although his lips moved, he couldn’t even say that, as he turned at the foot of the steps

[10:17.33]and looked up at the large woman in the door. Then she shut the door.

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