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rebellion

/ri-bel-yuhn/US // rɪˈbɛl yən //UK // (rɪˈbɛljən) //

叛乱,叛变,叛逆,反叛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler.
    • : resistance to or defiance of any authority, control, or tradition.
    • : the act of rebelling.

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Examples

  • The administration’s obsession with standardized tests led to a rebellion by parents, students, teachers, principals and even superintendents who spoke out against the policies.

  • Some of them were seeking a life free of prosecution, though many in the US viewed this repatriation as a pragmatic way to avoid slave rebellions, which is a less rosy motivation.

  • He fostered curiosity and instilled an underlying sense of rebellion.

  • In late August, an anonymous developer sporting a cartoon panda chef avatar led a crypto rebellion.

  • According to some scholars, the settlement stemmed from the rebellion and regrouping of people who fled the collapse of large, urban areas in the southern Levant, modern-day Israel and Palestine.

  • And, just like Katniss, we need rules that make solidarity a centerpiece of shared life, not a desperate act of rebellion.

  • It may have looked like paradise, but a rebellion was brewing around the Davises.

  • Since then, Kisangani has been the epicenter of nearly every rebellion in the Congo.

  • The Hunger Games franchise is already a deeply political saga, chronicling a growing rebellion against a tyrannical regime.

  • Democratic rebellion has transformed America in important ways.

  • For several months he remained under a political cloud, charged with incompetency to quell the Philippine Rebellion.

  • Primo de Rivera, who believed the rebellion to be fast on the wane, shipped back to Spain 7,000 troops.

  • The rebellion spread to their district, and many of the natives on and about the estate were eager to join in the movement.

  • For good or ill, the torrent of rebellion was suffered to break loose, and it soon engulfed a continent.

  • The anger and rebellion had been comatose in these years of freedom, but the maturer brain was the more uneasy, at times appalled.