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单词 thought crime
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thought crime n. unorthodox thinking considered as a criminal offence, usually in a totalitarian system; an example of this; spec. (in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which popularized the term) the offence of failing in absolute loyalty to the ruling power. [Originally after Japanese shisō-hanzai (1928; < shisō thought ( < Middle Chinese; in this context short for kiken shisō , lit. ‘dangerous thought’, used to refer to left-wing ideology; compare quot. 1982 at sense 2a) + hanzai offence, crime < Middle Chinese) and its abbreviated form shisō-han thought crime, also ‘thought criminal’ (1930; compare -han offence, crime < Middle Chinese). Compare thought police n.]
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1934 Japan Year Bk. 1934 226 Department of Justice..Special institution for the prevention of thought crime.
1935 H. Topping tr. T. Kagawa Medit. on Cross i. 15 This Jew [sc. Jesus] is a thought-criminal, but there is nothing to touch his thought-crime in Roman law.
c1941 Japan Year Bk. 1940–41 865 Against thought crime.
1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 22 He had committed..the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it.
1954 Encounter May 28/1 [The Revolution] first created the ‘People's Democracy’ of the Terror and of compulsory unanimity, of thought-crimes, and of denunciation as the supreme duty of the citizen.
1976 R. H. Mitchell Thought Control Prewar Japan iv. 120 Enforcing laws was perplexing, and was made more difficult by the vague terminology of the peace law, the unclear nature of a thought crime, and the general trend toward more laws.
2007 Independent 10 Dec. 31/3 A 23-year-old British Muslim saleswoman..was convicted last month..after downloading some jihadi material... Hers were thought crimes, which should not lead to prosecution in any democracy worth the name.
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