| 单词 | civil disobedience |
| 释义 | civil disobedience From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcivil disobedienceˌcivil disoˈbedience noun [uncountable]PROTESTwhen people, especially a large group of people, refuse to obey a law in order to protest in a peaceful way against the governmentExamples from the Corpuscivil disobedience• Non-cooperation and civil disobedience, as Gandhi understands them, can not be construed as a coercive threat in this sense.• If he fasted, he was released from jail; if he attempted civil disobedience, he was back in again.• Do we intend to commit civil disobedience?• Would he desist from civil disobedience if he were convinced?• In Pittsburgh, there were a few sit-ins, invasions of churches, minor civil disobedience.• Nothing in their training or previous experience had accustomed them to this kind of civil disobedience.• That there are risks associated with civil disobedience no one would deny, and among them is the risk of anarchy. |
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