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单词 burn someone in effigy
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burn someone in effigy

Burn a model of a person as a protest: the minister was burned in effigy...
  • In 1793 Tom Paine, the English author of the Rights of Man, which sought to justify the French Revolution, was burned in effigy in the Market Place.
  • As colonists' anger over the Stamp Act built, a tax official was burned in effigy from the limbs of an elm estimated to be 120 years old.
  • Figures representing the Mexican and US presidents were burned in effigy.
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