SAT历史文献重点词汇：1821年7月4日约翰·昆西·亚当斯演讲

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　　slough

　　any outer covering that can be shed or cast off

　　The slough of brutal force was entirely cast off; all was voluntary; all was unbiased consent; all was the agreement of soul with soul.

　　indignant

　　angered at something unjust or wrong

　　This enormous project of public robbery was no sooner made known, than it excited, throughout the colonies, one general burst of indignant resistance.

　　venerable

　　profoundly honored

　　It lives in the venerable records of Holy Writ.

　　polity

　　the form of government of a social organization

　　And if justice has been truly defined, the constant and perpetual will of securing to every one his right, how absurd and impracticable is that form of polity, in which the dispenser of justice is in one quarter of the globe, and he to whom justice is to be dispensed is in another; where “moons revolve and oceans roll between the order and its execution;” where time and space must be annihilated to secure to every one his right.

　　sinew

　　a band of tissue connecting a muscle to its bony attachment

　　To unite the sinews of numberless arms, and combine the councils of multitudes of minds, for the promotion of the well-being of all?

　　ordinance

　　a statute enacted by a city government

　　To each of these relations, different degrees of sympathy are allotted by the ordinances of nature.

　　indissoluble

　　incapable of being broken up

　　The ties of neighbourhood are broken up, those of friendship can never be formed, with an intervening ocean; and the natural ties of domestic life, the all-subduing sympathies of love, the indissoluble bonds of marriage, the heart-riveted kindliness of consanguinity, gradually wither and perish in the lapse of a few generations.

　　remonstrance

　　the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

　　... it is not the melancholy catalogue of alternate oppression and entreaty, of reciprocated indignity and remonstrance, upon which, in the celebration of this anniversary, your memory delights to dwell.

　　inexorable

　　not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

　　From the day of this declaration, the people of North America were no longer the fragment of a distant empire, imploring justice and mercy from an inexorable master in another hemisphere.

　　vicissitude

　　a variation in circumstances or fortune

　　In the progress of forty years since the acknowledgment of our Independence, we have gone through many modifications of internal government, and through all the vicissitudes of peace and war, with other mighty nations.

　　ineffable

　　defying expression or description

　　The frontlet upon her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power.

　　diadem

　　an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty

　　lascivious

　　driven by lust

　　Enter the lists, ye, boasters of inventive genius! ye mighty masters of the palette and the brush! ye improvers upon the sculpture of the Elgin marbles! ye spawners of fustian romance and lascivious lyrics!

　　contrivance

　　the faculty of inventive skill

　　It is not by the contrivance of agents of destruction, that America wishes to commend her inventive genius to the admiration or the gratitude of after times; nor is it even by the detection of the secrets or the composition of new modifications of physical nature.

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