Persecution
[pɜːsɪ'kjuːʃn] or [,pɝsɪ'kjʊʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion).
校对:桑福德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
(n.) The state or condition of being persecuted.
(n.) A carrying on; prosecution.
录入:卢卡斯
例句:
- Thou hast spoken the Jew, said Rebecca, as the persecution of such as thou art has made him. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Under his rule were carried out the dragonnades, a peculiarly malignant and effectual form of persecution. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In 277 the reigning monarch had him crucified and his body, for some unknown reason, flayed, and there began a fierce persecution of his adherents. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- However, one or two young men remained upright, and by constant persecution we wormed out of them some little information. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The effervescence of boys on the street, wasted and perverted through neglect or persecution, was drained and applied to fine uses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- If I had been driven to this country by the persecution of my government, I should not have kept those reasons a secret from you or from any one. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In one quarter of an hour you shall be free from all my persecution; but, give me that time, pray do! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The implacable animosity of Heyling, so far from being satiated by the success of his persecution, increased a hundredfold with the ruin he inflicted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Her story quite affected me--'pon my word and honour, it did--never was such a cruel persecution borne so angelically, I may say. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Privilege of certain types had gone, many tyrannies, much religious persecution. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- You should read history--look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The test in the persecution was that the Christian was required to offer sacrifice to the emperor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So this was the beginning of Sarkoja's persecution! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- What can it mean, this relentless persecution? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Even the angelic gentleness of Mr. Godfrey was, you see, beginning to give way at last under the persecution inflicted on him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Her persecutions ought to be ended: she ought to return to the society of which she was an ornament. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
录入:特德