abolition

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abolition 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 废除, 废奴运动

[医] 禁止, 消失

英文释义

n. the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)

abolition 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 abolition 在自然语境里怎么用：

In fact, in exchange for abolition, Britain paid 47,000 slave owners, like the Barclays brothers, through the Slavery Compensation Act.

—— Jamaica Kincaid: “I find England ugly…I hate England; the weather is like a jail sentence…the food in England is like a jail sentence”

For instance, she notes, the Barclays brothers founded Barclays Bank with wealth amassed through slave trading and, after the Slavery Abolition Act, extracted profit from the descendants of those same enslaved people.

—— Jamaica Kincaid: “I find England ugly…I hate England; the weather is like a jail sentence…the food in England is like a jail sentence”

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