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SAT历史文献重点词汇:独立宣言

2018-04-09 15:10:16来源:网络

  endeavor

  attempt by employing effort

  He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States

  obstruct

  hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

  He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

  harass

  annoy continually or chronically

  He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.

  render

  cause to become

  He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

  jurisdiction

  the right and power to interpret and apply the law

  He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws

  impose

  charge and collect payment

  For imposing taxes on us without our Consent

  deprive

  keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

  For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

  arbitrary

  based on or subject to individual discretion or preference

  For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

  abdicate

  give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors

  He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

  ravage

  make a pillaging or destructive raid on, as in wartime

  He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

  desolation

  an event that results in total destruction

  He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny...

  perfidy

  betrayal of a trust

  already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.

  redress

  act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

  In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

  unwarrantable

  incapable of being justified or explained

  We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.

  magnanimity

  liberality in bestowing gifts

  We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.

  consanguinity

  relation by blood

  They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

  acquiesce

  agree or express agreement

  We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

  rectitude

  righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

  We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States

  absolve

  excuse or free from blame

  they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved

  providence

  a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures

  And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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