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单词 book burning
释义

book burning in American English

noun
the destruction of writings of which the subject, the view of the author, or the like is consideredpolitically or socially objectionable: used as a means of censorship or oppression
Word origin
[1890–95]

Examples of 'book burning' in a sentence
book burning

Fishman is peculiarly enlightening on the strange psychologies of book burning.Because that strikes me as hideous and dangerous: it's book-burning in another form.Would an e-book burning elicit the same horror as a real-book burning?He refused to perform book-burning scenes, for fear of being burnt himself.Far from defend- ing free expression, many academics seemed as enthusiastic about the book burning as their students.A couple of weeks after the book burning, this rash view came back to haunt him.
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