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Edmund Burke on slavery

 

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

奴隸制猶如野草，隨處滋長。

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

 

Edmund Burke是愛爾蘭政治家、作家、演說家、政治理論家、哲學家，他強烈批判沒有經過限制的君王權力，並積極反抗在愛爾蘭迫害天主教的活動。

 

weed 野草／雜草

(noun 名詞)

 

weed 除草

(verb 動詞)

 

例子：I've been weeding the vegetable garden.

 

weed sth/sbd out 淘汰

(phrasal verb 片語動詞)

 

例子：The first round of interviews only really serves to weed out the very weakest of applicants.

 

soil 泥土

(noun 名詞)

 

1) 文雅的用法：土地／國家

例子：It was the first time we had set foot on French soil.

 

2) not to soil one’s hands 弄污雙手 =捲入不好的事情中

    (idiom 片語動詞)

 

例子：These were top lawyers, the kind who wouldn't normally soil their hands with police work or criminal law.