单词 | civil disobedience |
释义 | civil disobedienceWord family nounciviliancivilistcivilitycivismcivil defencecivil disobediencecivil engineeringcivil lawcivil libertycivil partnershipcivil rightscivil servantcivil warverbcivilianizeadverbcivillyadjectivecivil ˌcivil disoˈbedience noun [uncountableU] PROTESTwhen people, especially a large group of people, refuse to obey a law in order to protest in a peaceful way against the government 〔尤指大批民众针对政府的〕非暴力反抗,不合作主义,公民抗命 Examples from the Corpus civil disobedience• Non-cooperation and civil disobedience, as Gandhi understands them, can not be construed as a coercive threat in this sense.• If he fasted, he was released from jail; if he attempted civil disobedience, he was back in again.• Do we intend to commit civil disobedience?• Would he desist from civil disobedience if he were convinced?• In Pittsburgh, there were a few sit-ins, invasions of churches, minor civil disobedience.• Nothing in their training or previous experience had accustomed them to this kind of civil disobedience.• It had to be a battle in which his side would fight with a special kind of weapon: civil disobedience.• That there are risks associated with civil disobedience no one would deny, and among them is the risk of anarchy. |
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