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And so I do not have a criminal record. But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on. I had the “right ”accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor. Given the obscure of the charge, I feel sure that if I had come from a different background , and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty. While asking for costs to be awarded, my solicitor ’s case quite obviously revolved around the fact that I had a “brilliant academic record ”. 这样，我的履历上没有留下犯罪的记录。但当时最令人震惊的，是那些显然导致宣布我无罪的证据。我讲话的口音 “表 明我教养良好 ”，到庭的有体面的中产阶级的双亲，有可靠的证人，还有，我显然请得起一名很好的律师。从对我指控 的这种捕风捉影的做法来看，我肯定，如果我出身在另一种背景的家庭里，并且真的是失了业的话，我完全可能被判 有罪。当我的律师要求赔偿诉讼费时，他公然把辩护的证据建立在我 “学业优异 ”这一事实上。 第二单元 Something was definitely happening here. It was messier than a food fight and much more important than whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. My kids were doing what Copernicus did when he placed the sun at the center of the universe, readjusting the centuries-old paradigm of an Earth-centered system. They were doing what Reuben Mattus did when he renamed his Bronx ice cream Haagen-Dazs and raised the price withous changing the product. They were doing what Edward Jenner did when he discovered a vaccination for smallpox by abandoning his quest for a cure. 毫无疑问，这里正发生着什么事儿。这事儿比争抢食物还乱，比西红柿是水果还是蔬菜重要得多。哥白尼把太阳视为 宇宙中心，重新调整了地心说这一长达数世纪的范式，我的孩子们正做着哥白尼当年做的事。鲁宾·马修斯把他的布 朗克斯冰淇淋改名为哈根达斯，在不改变产品的情况下提高了价格，我的孩子们正做着鲁宾·马修斯做过的事。爱德 华·詹纳放弃了寻找治疗天花的特效药，从而发现了能预防这一疾病的疫苗，我的孩子们正做着爱德华·詹纳做过的 事。 Instead of studying people who were sick with smallpox, he began to study people who were exposed to it but never got sick. He found that they ’d all contracted a similar but milder disease, cow pox, which vaccinated them against the deadly smallpox.