- 1迫害
Persecution is cruel or unfair treatment that goes on, not one day. It is aimed at a person or a group, most often because of religion, political beliefs, or the people they belong to. Governments can do it; so can crowds, police, or even neighbours. You will meet the word in history, in the news, and in law: someone may leave home and ask another country for safety because of persecution. It is a heavy, rather formal noun. Though actually, people sometimes stretch it in everyday talk for a harsh workplace or a nasty boss; careful speakers still keep it for serious, repeated harm, not for one rude remark.
組成The noun is persecute + -ion. It comes from Middle English persecucioun, from Old French, from Church Latin persecūtio, from Latin persequor, “to follow up, to chase,” built from per- (“through, all the way”) + sequor (“to follow”). The picture behind the word is someone being hunted down. It took the place of an older English word, ēhtnes.
同家族的字
- persecutethe verb: to treat someone in this cruel, ongoing way
- persecutorthe person, group, or power that does it
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
persecutionnoun/ˌpɝsəˈkjuʃən/
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The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution.
- Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.
- During the early 20th century, wolves were considered undesirable. They were subject to persecution and were extirpated from large areas of their original range. With increased environmental awareness in the 1970s, attitudes toward wolves began to change.
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