Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

scored the most amazing upset in twenty-five years of boxing history … when he defeated Ray Robinson

职业生涯拐点清楚，plot 89。

“Did you see what Mike Jacobs did to Henry Armstrong?” Robinson had said to Louis… “Did you see how he treated him?”

三角对照写拳手命运，cast 91。

the career of a prizefighter was always sliding toward its end.

时间残酷感推节拍，pace 87。

Rarely does he rush about—moving, instead, as if in some kind of ether.

夜场气质立笔调，prose 91。

they were two Negroes from America, in another land, supping at the high tables of Europe, all the while knowing great shadows still awaited them… back in America.

跨国种族地图，world 92。

His work evenings begin around nine o’clock. By midnight he is finished with his work inside the ring

职业仪式即钩，hook 93。

Sugar Ray Robinson was the first modern prizefighter to take culture—music and grace and dance—into the ring with him.

文化进拳台成传记题眼，innov 88。

Who is to say that, in the harsh and terrifying world he sprang from, it wasn’t the beautiful end of a beautiful story?

挽歌式自问收束，ending 91。