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Jackbooted points to a tall, stiff soldier’s boot — a jackboot — that does not stop at the ankle. It covers the lower leg right up to the knee. Armies and riders wore that kind of boot so the leg stayed protected. Jackbooted, with the -ed, means “wearing those boots,” or done in that heavy military style. Though actually, in the English you will read most, the word is often stretched: writers say jackbooted police or jackbooted thugs when they want to paint a group as using force like an army, with little kindness. That use is angry and political; it is not a compliment, and it is not really about shopping for shoes. In ordinary talk about people usually just say army boots or tall boots. You will meet jackbooted more in news and arguments than in a shoe shop.
穿長筒軍靴的;長筒軍靴(常帶「高壓、動武」的味道)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jackbootedadj/ˈd͡ʒækbuːtɪd/
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Wearing jackboots.
- a jackbooted thug
- For, as the mighty cavalcades approach / Periwigg’d, Jackbooted, to announce the coach; / A thousand lamps spontaneously appear, / Through the long vista—visitors to cheer.— [...]
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Authoritarian or oppressive, especially in a cruel or violent manner.
- [T]his discourse is highly reminiscent of anticommunist rhetoric [...] emphasizing the totalitarian, jackbooted character of the enemy.
- By 1797, they had overturned elections, vitiated the modest religious liberty they had sanctioned, and finally installed the "jackbooted-justice" of military courts throughout the nation.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。