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To desegregate is to end a system that keeps people of different in separate schools, buses, shops, or neighbourhoods. The word is tied to the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, when courts and protests pushed public places to let Black and white people in together. It is a serious, formal verb — history, news, and law. Though actually, taking down the official rules and truly mixing people are not always the same: a school can be desegregated on paper while children still sit in the old groups. Some people stretch the verb to other kinds of keeping-apart, but the heart of the word is race.
廢除種族隔離
組成From de- (undo, reverse) + segregate (keep groups apart).
同家族的字
- segregatethe opposite action: keep groups apart
- segregationthe system of keeping races apart
- desegregationthe noun for ending that system
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
desegregateverb/diːˈsɛɡɹəɡeɪt/
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To end the segregation of (something).
- What was the goal of the "swim-ins" held in St. Augustine? In 1964, black Americans were eager to desegregate Florida beaches. They targeted St. Augustine during the city's 300th year celebration.
- During the 1960 Christmas vacation holiday, John and I decided on our own to desegregate a Greyhound bus in Nashville. That was before the Freedom Rides.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。