But Zoe refuses to marry George, admitting she's an octoroon, a woman who is one-eighth black. That would make their marriage illegal.
但是佐伊拒绝嫁给乔治 因为她有八分之一的黑人血统 这样他们的婚姻就不合法了。
英语百科
Quadroon
(重定向自Octoroon)
Quadroon, and the associated words quarteron, octoroon and quintroon are terms that, historically, were applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed-race, generally of African and European ancestry in the slave societies of the Americas, but also, within Australia, to those of Aboriginal and European ancestry.