在从纽约到波士顿的火车上,大卫发现坐在身边的白人老先生是位盲人。 老先生很健谈,他用自己的亲身经历告诉大卫,是因为失去了视力,他才抛弃了偏见。 他是美国南方人,从小就认为黑人低人一等。他有时碰到黑人店员收钱的时候,总是将钱放在柜台上,让黑人去拿,不肯与黑人的手有任何接触。 后来,他到了北方念书。有一次班上的一些同学们让他操办一 On the train from New York to Boston, David found the old Mr. White sitting beside him blind. The old man is very talkative, he used his own personal experience to tell David, because he lost sight, he just abandoned the prejudice. He is a southerner in the United States who considered blacks to be inferior when they were young. Sometimes when he encounters a black clerk to collect money, he always puts the money on the counter to allow the black to take it and refuses to make any contact with the black hand. Later, he went to study in the north. Some students in class once let him do one