Black and in their late teens, Tre, Doughboy and Ricky – the latter two half brothers – have hung out together since they were kids, they doing so more after Tre’s mother, Reva, seven years ago sent him, bright but adversarial, to live with his father, Furious, in the Crenshaw district of South Central Los Angeles across the street from the other two living with their single mother. The move was for Furious to show Tre what it means to have a sense of responsibility as a black male, especially in an atmosphere of black male violence against each other that pervades their neighborhoods. Furious, an independent financial adviser working in the neighborhood, believes that the urban black problems within which they live, including this violence and crime, is only fostered by the white majority. That move to live with Furious largely resulted in Tre having that responsibility in he now wanting to head off to college for a better life with his Catholic girlfriend Brandi, who has resisted the pressure of having sex in wanting to wait until the “inevitability” of she and Tre getting married. Ricky, already married with a child – the marriage because of the baby – is also aiming for a better life for his young family. A high school football star, Ricky is resting his dreams on a football scholarship. However, in not being sure he can meet the minimum SAT requirement of 700, he is sketching out a less than ideal Plan B considering that focus on his young family. Of the three, Doughboy is the one who has fallen into that “predetermined” life of crime and violence, he in a gang and having just been released from a stint in prison. Regardless of what the three view as their respective futures, those futures may be affected by the environment in which they live where looking at the wrong person in the wrong way could result in a death sentence.
—Huggo
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布莱克和十几岁的特雷、多尔博伊和里奇——后两个同父异母的兄弟——从孩提时代起就一直在一起。七年前，特雷的母亲瑞娃（Reva）把他送到洛杉矶中南部克伦肖（Crenshaw）区，与另两个与单亲母亲住在一起的人隔街而居，之后，他们的交往更频繁了。此举是为了向特雷展示作为黑人男性的责任感意味着什么，尤其是在黑人男性相互暴力的氛围中，这种暴力弥漫在他们的社区。在该社区工作的独立财务顾问弗雷夫认为，他们所生活的城市黑人问题，包括暴力和犯罪，只是大多数白人助长的。这一举动在很大程度上导致特雷承担了这一责任，他现在想和天主教女友布兰迪一起上大学，过上更好的生活。布兰迪一直抵制着做爱的压力，希望等到她和特雷结婚的“必然性”到来。瑞奇已经有了孩子——因为孩子而结婚——他也在为自己年轻的家庭追求更好的生活。作为一名高中足球明星，瑞奇正把他的梦想寄托在足球奖学金上。然而，由于不确定自己是否能达到700人的最低SAT要求，考虑到对年轻家庭的关注，他正在草拟一个不太理想的B计划。在这三个人中，多尔博伊是一个陷入犯罪和暴力“预定”生活的人，他在一个帮派中，刚刚从监狱中获释。不管这三个人如何看待各自的未来，这些未来可能会受到他们所处环境的影响，在这种环境中，以错误的方式看待错误的人可能会导致死刑判决。-雨果
重点词汇释义：
years ago多年前
live with与…同处；与同居; 学会去适应；接受并忍受
Los Angeles洛杉矶
a sense of感; 的感觉; 观念
each other彼此; 互相
