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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

迫害对他们产生了自然的影响。它为他们找到了一个教派;这使他们成为一个派系。

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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

因为我们从一个人所持的某种学说的性质，或者从其他与他持有同样学说的人的行为中，推断出他将会犯罪，而惩罚他，这就是迫害，在任何情况下，都是愚蠢和邪恶的。

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

压迫是一群人对另一群人所做的事，特别是因为后者有一个共同的威胁特征。

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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

比起隔着半个地球的压迫和歧视，隔着半个地球的不公更容易激起人们的愤怒。

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It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

一个派系的窃窃私语不可能压倒一个国家的声音。

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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

在我看来，所有教派的主张似乎都是正确的，而否认则是错误的。

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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

我们倾向于把诗歌分成不同的派别。它限制了我们的阅读。

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