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persecutor

/pur-si-kyoot/US // ˈpɜr sɪˌkyut //UK // (ˈpɜːsɪˌkjuːt) //

迫害者,逼迫者,迫害人

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    per·se·cut·ed, per·se·cut·ing.

    • : to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
    • : to annoy or trouble persistently.

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Examples

  • As with Punjab in the 1970s and 1980s, the government painted any and all dissenters as anti-national—and then persecuted them accordingly.

  • The idea here isn’t to persecute all of them, though, or tell them “what to think.”

  • A cryptocurrency might be used to allow money transfers to persecuted activists, similar to how Wikileaks received donations in bitcoin after its accounts were blocked for leaking classified information.

  • Islamist extremism is the worst persecutor of the worldwide church.

  • Their report is consistent with those of other twin survivors who said Mengele was their protector as much as their persecutor.

  • He was a great persecutor of heretics, and united with great talents equally great vices.

  • But I saw rocks and trees around me; clouds; I was in a grotto and beside me was a man, that persecutor!

  • And just then the cab suddenly stopped, and there was his persecutor rapping on the front glass.

  • Bishop Thornton, suffragan of Dover, was an indefatigable persecutor of the true church.

  • John Peter, son-in-law of Alexander, a horrid blasphemer and persecutor, died wretchedly.