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标题：An International Career Forged by the Struggles of Apartheid

Navi Pillay, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, fought racism in South Africa, shaping her international career as a judge and advocate for justice and human rights.

正文：She lived her childhood in a slum without sewage or water,attended a school for only children of Indian descent, and knew that her skin color prohibited her from going to the beach her father would drive past during the Christmas season.

知识点：【slum】 /slʌm/ n.

英文释义：A slum is an area of a city where many people live in very bad

housing conditions with extreme poverty.

本义/ 本文特指：贫民窟、棚户区；slum 重"穷"，ghetto 重"特定族群被强制圈居"。

补充：（不写"她很穷"，只甩出sewage or water——用具体细节代替抽象形容词。）

核心搭配：grow up in a slum, slum clearance, slum dwellers