奥斯卡遭到“缺乏多样性”质疑

In a video posted to Facebook Monday morning, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the actress posed some powerful, thoughtful questions.

美籍黑人女演员贾达•萍克特•史密斯于当地时间1月18日一早在Facebook发布一则视频。面对镜头，她频频发问，颇有些振聋发聩的味道。巧的是，那天正好是马丁•路德•金纪念日。

"Is it time that people of color recognize how much power, influence, that we have amassed, that we no longer need to ask to be invited anywhere?" she said in the video. "Maybe it's time that we recognize that if we love and respect and acknowledge ourselves in the way in which we are asking others to do, that that is the place of true power."

Pinkett Smith called for change, saying that "it's our responsibility now" tomake the difference.

"Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.And we are a dignified people and we are powerful," she said. "Let'sdo us, differently."

Fellow member of Hollywood Spike Lee also addressed the #OscarsSoWhite controversy this morning, saying that he, too, will be skipping the Awards show this year.

In an Instagram post, the director condemned Hollywood execs for not using their power to bring more stories about people of color to the big screen.

"The truth is we ain't in those rooms and until minorities are, the Oscar nominees will remain lilly [sic] white," he wrote.

Following the backlash of yet another year of #OscarsSoWhite, Jada Pinkett Smith expressed her dismay on the awards' lack of diversity.

1 amassed

v.积累，积聚( amass的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

•He amassed a fortune from silver mining. 他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。

•They have amassed a fortune in just a fewyears. 他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。来自《简明英汉词典》

2 dignified

a.可敬的，高贵的

参考例句：

•Throughout his trial he maintained adignified silence. 在整个审讯过程中，他始终沉默以保持尊严。

• He always strikes such a dignified posebefore his girlfriend. 他总是在女友面前摆出这种庄严的姿态。

3 spike

n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效

参考例句：

•The spike pierced the receipts and heldthem in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。

•They'll do anything to spike the guns ofthe opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。

4 controversy

n.争论，辩论，争吵

参考例句：

•That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。

•We ran the risk of becoming the butt ofevery controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。

5 condemned

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

•He condemned the hypocrisy of thosepoliticians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。

•The policy has been condemned as aregressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

6 nominees

n.被提名者，被任命者(nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

•She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册

•A startling number of his nominees forsenior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。