【The New York Times】A Mississippi Restaurant Has Been Beloved for Decades. But There’s Another Story to Tell. (Published 2021)

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A Mississippi Restaurant Has Been Beloved for Decades. But There’s Another Story to Tell. (Published 2021)

Lusco’s, a century-old fixture in the Delta, became known for its food, and for Booker Wright, a Black waiter who dared ...

bound
inaugurate
divide
vandalize
oratorio

bound

意味　＜…と＞結ばれた, 切っても切れない (tied) ＜to＞

GREENWOOD, Miss. — In the Deep South, any restaurant that has operated for nearly a century is bound to have a complicated racial history. Lusco’s is one of those.
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inaugurate

意味　[通例 be ～d]〈人が〉（式典を行って）就任する

Since opening in its current location on the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated in 1933, the restaurant has served cotton farmers and soldiers returning home from war.
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divide

意味　〈物· 事が〉〈考え· 人· 組織など〉を分裂させる（⇔unite）

Booker Wright, its most famous employee, knew that divide well.
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“All of that hurts, but you have to smile.”
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胸が痛いな。日々受けている仕打ちをこうやって口にすると更に攻撃されるってほんときつい。

vandalize

意味　（意図的に）〈芸術品· 公共物など〉を破壊する.

Hours after it was broadcast in prime time, a police officer assaulted Mr. Wright, who was then hospitalized, and Booker’s Place was vandalized.
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