How the Harlem Globetrotters Integrated the NBA

How the Harlem Globetrotters Integrated the NBA sportsstories.substack.com How the Harlem Globetrotters Integrated the NBA The 1948 game between the Globetrotters and Minneapolis Lakers that changed basketball forever Eric Nusbaum Nov 5, 2019 1 Share this post How the Harlem Globetrotters Integrated the NBA sportsstories.substack.com Welcome to Sports Stories, a newsletter written by Eric Nusbaum, and illustrated by Adam Villacin.

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Every week, we’ll be learning about sports, history, and sports history.

每周，我们都会学习体育、历史和体育史。

We hope you enjoy Sports Stories — and that if you do, you share it with your friends, families, and any Harlem Globetrotters you might know.

我们希望您喜欢《体育故事》——如果您喜欢，请与您的朋友、家人以及您可能认识的任何哈莱姆环球旅行者分享。

One of the best things about the NBA is the urgency of the present.

NBA 最好的事情之一就是当下的紧迫性。

No pro sports league does a better job of always living in the moment.

没有哪一个职业体育联盟比我们更能活在当下。

The stars of right now are the stars we care about.

现在的明星是我们关心的明星。

The past exists, but not as something to worship.

过去确实存在，但不是用来崇拜的东西。

(Except, to some weirdos, like the illustrator of this newsletter, Kobe.)

（除了一些怪人，比如本通讯的插画家科比。）

But for someone like me who always wants to draw lines between what happened a long time ago and what is happening now; who is obsessed with context, who is always trying to figure out how we got here, basketball’s presentness is also annoying.

但对于像我这样总是想在很久以前发生的事情和现在正在发生的事情之间划清界限的人；谁痴迷于背景，谁总是试图弄清楚我们是如何走到这一步的，篮球的存在感也很烦人。

The sport can feel sort of weightless, even though the “old days” of the sport are not actually that old.

这项运动给人一种失重的感觉，尽管这项运动的“旧时光”实际上并没有那么古老。

And for the most part, the big moments are easy to identify.

大多数情况下，重大时刻很容易识别。

Jim Naismith hung his peach baskets in 1891.

1891 年，吉姆·奈史密斯 (Jim Naismith) 挂起了他的桃篮。

Wilt scored 100 in 1962.

1962年，威尔特获得了100分。

The NBA-ABA merger, which led the pro game to its current (excellent) form, happened in 1976.

NBA 与 ABA 的合并发生在 1976 年，这使得职业比赛达到了目前（优秀）的状态。

Soon after that, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were drafted.

不久之后，魔术师约翰逊和拉里伯德被选中。

The NBA’s pastlessness is also in part the result of its relatively gradual ascent in popularity.

NBA 的不温不火在一定程度上也是其受欢迎程度相对逐渐上升的结果。

It’s been a slow rise.

这是一个缓慢的上升过程。

Baseball celebrates its past, because those were the most glorious times baseball had.

棒球庆祝它的过去，因为那是棒球最辉煌的时代。

Basketball’s greatest glories are happening now—or better yet, they haven’t even been dreamed up.

篮球最伟大的荣耀正在发生——或者更好的是，它们甚至还不是梦想中的。

So on one level, it makes sense that basketball doesn’t talk about how it was integrated at the professional level.

因此，从某种程度上来说，篮球不谈论它是如何融入职业层面的，这是有道理的。

It certainly doesn’t need to hearken back to that era to prove its bonafides as a sport for everyone.

它当然不需要回到那个时代来证明它是一项适合所有人的运动。

There is no basketball Jackie Robinson, in part because basketball just wasn’t as popular in the middle of the century.

没有篮球杰基·罗宾逊，部分原因是篮球在本世纪中叶并不那么流行。

But on the other hand, the story is so good; so critical and fundamental to American culture, that I can’t believe it hasn’t been celebrated more.

但另一方面，这个故事又很好；它对美国文化如此重要和基础，我不敢相信它没有得到更多的庆祝。

Historians generally agree that the pivotal moment in basketball’s integration came two years before the NBA signed its first black players.

历史学家普遍认为，篮球一体化的关键时刻发生在 NBA 签下第一批黑人球员的两年前。

It came on February 19, 1948, in the form of an exhibition game between two of most iconic franchises in the sport’s history: the Lakers (then of Minneapolis) and the Harlem Globetrotters.

它发生在 1948 年 2 月 19 日，以体育史上最具标志性的两支球队：湖人队（当时的明尼阿波利斯队）和哈莱姆篮球队之间的一场表演赛形式进行。

The importance of this game isn’t the kind of thing you can “prove.” But it was a big deal.

这个游戏的重要性不是你可以“证明”的。但这是一件大事。

It was an inflection point.

这是一个转折点。

To really feel its significance you have to understand what these teams were all about, and where pro basketball was at this point: prehistoric, disorganized, mostly run by hockey rink owners who wanted something to fill their arenas on off nights.

要真正感受到它的重要性，你必须了解这些球队的全部内容，以及职业篮球在这一点上的位置：史前的、无组织的、主要由曲棍球场老板经营，他们希望在休息的夜晚有一些东西来填补他们的竞技场。

The shot clock was still four years away.

距离比赛开始还有四年。

The Lakers and Globetrotters could not have been more different.

湖人队和环球旅行者队有着天壤之别。

For one, the Lakers were all white and the Globetrotters were all black.

其一，湖人队全是白人，环球旅行者队全是黑人。

For another, the Lakers played in an organized league, National Basketball League—which they would go on to dominate that year behind center George Mikan.

另一方面，湖人队参加了一个有组织的联盟——国家篮球联盟——他们在那一年继续在中锋乔治·麦肯的带领下称霸该联盟。

The Lakers were relatively new, even in the world of pro basketball, a product of the recent formation of organized leagues in the US and Canada.

即使在职业篮球界，湖人队也相对较新，是美国和加拿大最近组建的有组织联盟的产物。

The Globetrotters, on the other hand, were barnstormers.

另一方面，环球旅行者队则是巡回表演者。

They played any and all comers.

他们扮演任何来者不拒的角色。

They had a long history dating back to the mid-1920s.

他们的历史可以追溯到 20 年代中期。

They were a product of the earliest, messiest days of pro basketball.

它们是职业篮球最早、最混乱时期的产物。

The Harlem Globetrotters were not from Harlem.

哈莱姆环球旅行者队并非来自哈莱姆区。

They were from Chicago.

他们来自芝加哥。

They evolved from a local team of high schoolers on the South Side.

他们是从南区当地的一支高中生队伍发展而来的。

These classmates had played together all over town, including as an attraction at a nightclub called the Savoy Ballroom.

这些同学一起在镇上各处玩耍，其中包括在一家名为 Savoy Ballroom 的夜总会里玩耍。

Eventually, they got hooked up with a local hustler named Abe Saperstein.

最终，他们和当地一个名叫阿贝·萨珀斯坦（Abe Saperstein）的骗子勾搭上了。

In his book on the Harlem Globetrotters, the writer Ben Green wonderfully describes the meeting of Saperstein and Globetrotters in roaring ‘20s Chicago as the perfect cresting of two massive migratory waves that helped make America what it was: Jews from Eastern Europe, like Saperstein’s family, which had made its way from Poland, and African Americans from the South, like the families of the players, which had been part of the Great Migration.

作家本·格林在他关于哈莱姆篮球队的书中，精彩地将萨珀斯坦和篮球队在二十世纪二十年代芝加哥的相遇描述为两波大规模移民浪潮的完美顶峰，这两波移民浪潮帮助美国成为今天的样子：来自东欧的犹太人，如萨珀斯坦的家人，他们从波兰来到这里，而来自南方的非裔美国人，如球员的家人，他们是大迁徙的一部分。

Saperstein, who had worked as a rec basketball coach, and as a booking agent for Negro League baseball team, became the promoter, manager, and resident marketing genius behind the Globetrotters.

萨珀斯坦曾担任休闲篮球教练和黑人联盟棒球队的预订代理人，后来成为环球旅行者队背后的发起人、经理和常驻营销天才。

It was a perfect match: Saperstein loved basketball and respected the brilliance of his players: he knew he had something special on his hands, and he had the charm, gumption, and cunning to make the Globetrotters truly global.

这是一场完美的比赛：萨珀斯坦热爱篮球，尊重球员的才华：他知道自己手上有一些特别的东西，而且他有魅力、进取心和狡猾，可以让环球旅行者队真正走向全球。

He also had a penchant for self-glorification and for rewriting history in a manner that would burnish his legacy.

他还热衷于自我美化，并热衷于以某种方式重写历史，以擦亮自己的遗产。

For instance, he is often credited for coming up with the team’s name—but that may or may not be the case.

例如，他经常因提出球队的名字而受到赞誉——但事实可能是也可能不是。

Regardless of who came up with the name, the Harlem Globetrotters remained based in Chicago.

不管这个名字是谁想出来的，哈莱姆篮球队的总部仍然是芝加哥。

The name was part of the brand, meant to evoke the Harlem Renaissance, and black excellence.

这个名字是品牌的一部分，旨在唤起哈莱姆文艺复兴和黑人的卓越品质。

In the early years, the Globetrotters didn’t quite trot the globe, but they played nearly every night, in cities around the United States.

早年，环球旅行者队并没有环游世界，但他们几乎每晚都在美国各地的城市进行比赛。

They put hard miles on Saperstein’s beat up Model-T, worked and worked, and they transformed into a powerhouse.

他们在萨珀斯坦那辆破旧的 T 型车上努力行驶了几英里，工作了又工作，最后他们变成了一辆动力强劲的汽车。

There were no tricks, there was no Sweet Georgia Brown yet.

没有任何技巧，还没有甜蜜的乔治亚布朗。

The original players were long gone.

原来的玩家早已不在了。

They were just a damn good basketball team.

他们只是一支非常优秀的篮球队。

In the 1940s, the Globetrotters began introducing comic bits little by little, to boost attendance, and to give themselves a breather as they ran up the score on opponents.

20 世纪 40 年代，环球旅行者队开始逐渐引入喜剧片段，以提高上座率，并在不断提高对手得分时让自己喘口气。

Beloved by fans both black and white and led by Goose Tatum and Marques Haynes, they were considered by many observers to be the best basketball team in the world.

在古斯·塔图姆和马克斯·海恩斯的带领下，他们深受黑人和白人球迷的喜爱，被许多观察家认为是世界上最好的篮球队。

The other contender for the claim of “best basketball team in the world” was the Minneapolis Lakers.

“世界最佳篮球队”的另一个竞争者是明尼阿波利斯湖人队。

The Lakers had recently acquired Mikan, the 6’10” center who was widely considered to be the best player in the history of the sport.

湖人队最近收购了麦肯，这位身高 6 英尺 10 英寸的中锋被广泛认为是这项运动历史上最好的球员。

Saperstein knew the owner of the Lakers, Max Winter, and they decided to put on an exhibition game between the two clubs.

萨珀斯坦认识湖人队老板马克斯·温特，他们决定在两家具乐部之间举办一场表演赛。

There’s no evidence that Saperstein and Winter saw a Globetrotters-Lakers game as any kind of referendum on race and basketball; it was simply a mutually beneficial business proposition.

没有证据表明萨珀斯坦和温特将环球旅行者队与湖人队的比赛视为对种族和篮球的任何形式的公投；这只是一个互惠互利的商业提议。

It would be speculation to say that the players were thinking about race when they took the court.

如果说球员们上场时正在考虑比赛，那纯属猜测。

Fans started lining up at Chicago Stadium at 3 a.m.

凌晨3点，球迷们开始在芝加哥体育场排队。

The Globetrotters were hometown heroes, and so was the Lakers’ George Mikan, who had previously played at DePaul University and for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League.

环球旅行者队是家乡英雄，湖人队的乔治·麦肯也是家乡英雄，他此前曾效力于德保罗大学和美国国家篮球联盟的芝加哥美国齿轮队。

Nearly 18,000 fans packed into the arena—a cavernous place with ceilings supported by massive steel trusses that rose over the floor and three tiers of seating.

近 18,000 名球迷挤进了体育馆——这是一个巨大的场地，天花板由高过地板的巨大钢桁架支撑，并设有三层座位。

Chicago Stadium was, at the time of its construction in 1929, the largest indoor arena in the world .

芝加哥体育场于 1929 年建成时是世界上最大的室内体育场。

It also featured one of the world’s largest pipe organs.

它还拥有世界上最大的管风琴之一。

The place got loud.

这个地方变得很吵闹。

It was a Thursday night.

那是一个星期四的晚上。

The Lakers-Globetrotters game was half of a doubleheader, along with a Basketball Association of America game between the Chicago Stags and New York Knicks—but it was also very clearly the main event.

湖人队与环球旅行者队的比赛是双赛的一半，还有美国篮球协会芝加哥雄鹿队和纽约尼克斯队之间的比赛，但它显然也是主要赛事。

(The Globetrotters often played exhibitions before segregated professional games.

（环球旅行者队经常在种族隔离的职业比赛之前进行表演赛。

In fact, some pro owners argued that they didn’t want to integrate their leagues precisely because they were afraid that if they did so, the Globetrotters would lose some of their appeal, and thereby no longer bring in the fans and money they did in these pregame exhibitions.)

事实上，一些职业老板辩称，他们之所以不想整合自己的联赛，正是因为他们担心如果这样做，环球旅行者队将失去一些吸引力，从而不再像在赛前表演赛中那样吸引球迷和金钱。）

The Lakers got off to an early lead, jumping ahead 9-2.

湖人队早早取得领先，以9-2领先。

Throughout the first half, the Globetrotters had no answer for Mikan.

整个上半场，环球旅行者队都没有对麦肯做出任何回应。

Goose Tatum, who was given the assignment of guarding Mikan, was only 6’3”—seven inches shorter than the big man.

负责防守麦肯的古斯·塔图姆身高只有 6 英尺 3 英寸，比这位大个子矮了 7 英寸。

At half time, the score was 32-23 Lakers.

半场结束，湖人队比分32-23。

Mikan had put up 18 points.

麦肯拿下18分。

But the Globetrotters adjusted.

但环球旅行者队做出了调整。

They decided to double-team Mikan on defense.

他们决定对麦肯进行包夹防守。

They also began to foul him.

他们也开始对他犯规。

Fifty years before the term “Hack-a-Shaq” came to be, the Globetrotters employed the strategy on George Mikan.

在“Hack-a-Shaq”一词出现的五十年前，环球旅行者队就在乔治·麦肯身上采用了这一策略。

It worked: Mikan missed free throws, and grew frustrated.

这招奏效了：麦肯罚球不中，并变得沮丧。

The Globetrotters also began to outrun the Lakers on offense.

环球旅行者队在进攻上也开始超越湖人队。

They were undersized, but they were also faster, and in better shape as a result of their relentless playing schedule.

他们身材矮小，但速度更快，而且由于严格的比赛安排，他们的状态也更好。

By the end of the third quarter, the game was tied at 42.

第三节结束，双方战成42平。

In the fourth, Tatum fouled out, as did Babe Pressley, who had been helping him guard Mikan.

第四节，塔图姆和一直帮助塔图姆防守麦肯的贝比·普莱斯利也犯满了。

The final quarter crawled by.

最后一个季度慢慢过去了。

It was ugly and it was physical.

它很丑陋，而且是身体上的。

Finally, with about ninety seconds left, the Globetrotters took possession with the game tied at 59.

最终，在比赛还剩大约 90 秒时，环球旅行者队取得了控球权，双方战成 59 平。

This was before shot clocks, so the only move was to hold on until the last shot.

这是在比赛开始之前，所以唯一的办法就是坚持到最后一次比赛。

They managed to get the ball in the hands of Marques Haynes, who was the world’s greatest ballhandler.

他们成功地将球交给了世界上最伟大的控球手马克斯·海恩斯。

Haynes dribbled away the seconds, the crowd on its feet, the Lakers on their heels, before with ten seconds to go, a Lakers defender poked the ball out of bounds.

海恩斯运球几秒钟，观众站了起来，湖人队紧随其后，在比赛还剩十秒时，湖人队的一名后卫将球捅出界外。

The crowd only got louder.

人群的喧闹声越来越大。

The inbound pass was to Haynes, who waited, waited, waited, before casually tossing the ball over to Ermer Robinson.

界外球传给了海恩斯，海恩斯等了又等，然后漫不经心地将球传给了埃尔默·罗宾逊。

Robinson, from San Diego, had joined the team only a couple years before, after his service in World War II ended.

来自圣地亚哥的罗宾逊几年前在二战服役结束后才加入了这支队伍。

He was a shooter.

他是一名射手。

And that’s what he did against the Lakers that night.

这就是他那天晚上对阵湖人队时所做的。

He pumped his right leg, and lofted a one-handed shot from thirty feet out.

他右腿一动，从三十英尺外单手投篮。

The ball floated high in the air under the steel girders of Chicago Stadium.

球在芝加哥体育场的钢梁下高高地漂浮在空中。

As it descended toward the hoop, the timekeeper’s gun sounded.

当它落向篮筐时，计时员的枪响了。

Then, suddenly, it went in.

然后突然就进去了。

The Globetrotters were victors.

环球旅行者队是胜利者。

They hoisted Robinson on their shoulders The stadium filled with noise.

他们把罗宾逊扛在肩上，体育场里充满了喧闹声。

Afterward, Mikan visited his rivals in the locker room to congratulate them.

随后，麦肯到更衣室看望了对手，向他们表示祝贺。

That year, the Lakers would go on to win the National Basketball League title.

那一年，湖人队继续赢得美国国家篮球联赛冠军。

After the season, the National Basketball League would merge with the American Association of Basketball.

赛季结束后，国家篮球联盟将与美国篮球协会合并。

The new league they formed would eventually be called the National Basketball Association.

他们组建的新联盟最终被称为国家篮球协会。

The Minneapolis Lakers were the first great dynasty of the NBA.

明尼阿波利斯湖人队是 NBA 的第一个伟大王朝。

And in the league’s second official year of existence, 1950, the pro basketball color line was broken for good.

1950 年，联盟正式成立的第二年，职业篮球的肤色界限被永远打破。

Three black players opened the season with NBA teams, and two of them, Chuck Cooper and Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, were former Harlem Globetrotters.

三名黑人球员在 NBA 球队开启了本赛季，其中两人查克·库珀和纳特·“斯威特沃特”·克利夫顿是前哈莱姆篮球队球员。

As for the Globetrotters, they remained a bigger draw than any NBA team.

至于环球旅行者队，他们仍然比任何 NBA 球队都更有吸引力。

But as the league became more competitive, and more popular, they also adapted: acrobatics and tricks became an increasingly large part of their games.

但随着联盟变得更有竞争力、更受欢迎，他们也适应了：杂技和技巧成为他们比赛中越来越重要的一部分。

In 1952, they signed up another team to serve as their regular opponents: the hapless, glorious, Washington Generals.

1952年，他们又签约了另一支球队作为他们的常规对手：倒霉的、光荣的华盛顿将军队。

The Harlem Globetrotters were the greatest team in the world.

哈莱姆环球旅行者队是世界上最伟大的球队。

They were as responsible as anyone for the growth of basketball as a popular sport in the first half of the twentieth century; they were responsible for the financial stability of segregated pro leagues, then responsible for getting those leagues to finally integrate.

他们和其他人一样，对篮球运动作为二十世纪上半叶流行运动的发展负有责任。他们负责各个职业联赛的财务稳定，然后负责让这些联赛最终整合。

But because of all they did, the Globetrotters as they existed in 1948 became a sort of relic: a throwback to the purity of the independent, barnstorming sports franchise, and a reminder that sports is, above all, entertainment.

但由于他们所做的一切，1948 年的环球旅行者队成为了某种遗迹：回归了独立、巡回表演的体育特许经营的纯粹性，并提醒人们，体育首先是娱乐。

We should appreciate them for it.

我们应该为此感谢他们。

Basketball has a richer history than it might have you believe.

篮球的历史比您想象的要丰富。

There’s actually a book on this particular game.

实际上有一本关于这个特定游戏的书。

John Christgau’s Tricksters in the Madhouse , is one of the most underrated sports books around.

约翰·克里斯特高的《疯人院的骗子》是最被低估的体育书籍之一。

Christgau is a great researcher, and elegant writer.

克里斯特高是一位伟大的研究者和优雅的作家。

( Tricksters is also published by the University of Nebraska Press, who do a heroic job preserving sports history, and making a space on bookshelves for great writing about subjects that might not always get attention from more commercially-minded outfits.)

（《骗子》也是由内布拉斯加大学出版社出版的，该出版社在保存体育历史方面做出了英勇的工作，并在书架上为那些可能并不总是受到更具商业头脑的机构关注的主题的精彩写作腾出了空间。）

Also check out Ben Green’s history of the Globetrotters, Spinning the Globe , which unfortunately features a forward by Bill Cosby, but is otherwise a fantastic read that does not shy away from the complexities of this history, and the way the team’s real past has been mired in mythology.

还可以看看本·格林 (Ben Green) 的环球旅行者队历史，《旋转地球》(Spinning the Globe)，不幸的是，其中的前锋是比尔·考斯比 (Bill Cosby)，但除此之外，这本书还是一本精彩的读物，它并没有回避这段历史的复杂性，以及球队真实的过去如何陷入神话。

For more on George Mikan, check out Michael Schumacher’s Mr. Basketball , which features a lovely passage on the Globetrotters game.

有关乔治·麦肯的更多信息，请查看迈克尔·舒马赫的《篮球先生》，其中有一段关于环球旅行者比赛的精彩段落。

In researching this story, I also came across some awesome work by an independent historian in Minnesota named Stew Thornley.

在研究这个故事的过程中，我还发现了明尼苏达州一位名叫斯图·桑利 (Stew Thornley) 的独立历史学家的一些精彩著作。

Thornley gets deep into the game, and into the ensuing run of contests between the Lakers and Globetrotters.

索恩利深入了解了比赛，以及随后湖人队和环球旅行者队之间的一系列比赛。

He’s clearly passionate about this history, and his website is a great resource .

他显然对这段历史充满热情，他的网站是一个很好的资源。

Also, if you like basketball history, or even American history, you should go read the FreeDarko Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History.

另外，如果您喜欢篮球历史，甚至喜欢美国历史，您应该去阅读 FreeDarko 职业篮球历史无可争议指南。

One of the tragic things you come across reading about the early Globetrotters is the racism they encountered every day traveling across America, playing for white fans.

你在阅读有关早期环球旅行者的文章时遇到的悲惨事情之一就是他们每天在美国各地为白人球迷踢球时遇到的种族主义。

It was exactly what you’d expect: players being denied service in restaurants, rooms in hotels, forced to eat crackers and cheese from the only store in town for dinner.

这正是你所期望的：球员在餐馆、酒店房间被拒绝提供服务，被迫从镇上唯一的商店吃饼干和奶酪作为晚餐。

Oddly, along for the ride as some of this was happening was the first white Globetrotter: Bob Karstens.

奇怪的是，在这一切发生的同时，第一位白人环球旅行者：鲍勃·卡斯滕斯（Bob Karstens）也参与其中。

Karstens was signed by the Globetrotters in 1942 after Goose Tatum was drafted into the Army Air Forces.

1942 年，古斯·塔图姆应征入伍后，卡斯滕斯被环球旅行者队签下。

Saperstein saw Karstens play *against* the Globetrotters in Iowa, and decided to sign him up.

萨珀斯坦在爱荷华州观看了卡斯滕斯与环球旅行者队的比赛，并决定与他签约。

He was a skilled dribbler, and inventive trickster, who came up with some of the team’s most iconic routines, including the pre-game Magic Circle, which lives on to this day:

他是一位熟练的盘带手和富有创造力的魔术师，他想出了一些球队最具标志性的套路，包括赛前的魔术圈，至今仍在使用：

Karestens stayed on with the team for a decade as a manager.

卡雷斯滕斯在球队担任了十年的主教练。

He was elected into the Globetrotters Hall of Fame.

他被选入环球旅行者名人堂。

He could dribble three basketballs at once all the way into his eighties .

他一直到八十多岁，还能一次运三个篮球。

Karstens once told the LA Times that Abe Saperstein was as important to the history of basketball as James Naismith.

卡斯滕斯曾告诉《洛杉矶时报》，阿贝·萨珀斯坦对篮球历史的重要性不亚于詹姆斯·奈史密斯。

“Dr. Naismith invented it, and Abe showed everybody how to enjoy it.”

“奈史密斯博士发明了它，安倍则向大家展示了如何享受它。”

This has been Vol. 7 of Sports Stories by Eric Nusbaum (words) and Adam Villacin (art).

这是卷。埃里克·努斯鲍姆（Eric Nusbaum）（文字）和亚当·维拉辛（Adam Villacin）（艺术）的《体育故事》第 7 篇。

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如果您有任何问题、意见或疑虑，请回复此电子邮件或联系 enusbaum@gmail.com 。

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我们很乐意听取您的意见。

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