manumission
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌmænjʊ'mɪʃən]
- 美式音标 [ˌmænjə'mɪʃən]
- 国际音标 [,mænju'miʃən]
- 英式发音
基本解释
- n. （农奴，奴隶的）解放
英汉例句
- He believed in the manumission of the slaves.
他相信奴隶解放事业的价值。 - To a soundtrack created by the whales themselves—via Roger Payne's groundbreaking and album-charting recording of the plaintive song of the humpback whale—we moved slowly towards cetacean manumission.
透过鲸鱼们自己演唱，由Roger Payne's 灌录的座头鲸忧伤的歌，我们慢慢倾向了解放鲸鱼。 - Hamilton co-founded New York's Manumission Society at a time when one-fifth of the city owned slaves.
ECONOMIST: A hero gets his due at last - The Mattatuck Museum now has an exhibit dedicated to Fortune, including a poem, called The Manumission Requiem, by Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson.
NPR: Hidden Museum Treasures: Fortune's Bones - While warning (presciently) that populism would breed demagoguery and tyranny, Hamilton opposed slavery (establishing the New York Manumission Society), founded a school to educate frontier Indians (now Hamilton College), launched the Bank of New York (1784), argued for a permanent defense (standing army), and extolled the virtue and productiveness of commerce, industry, and finance.
FORBES: Honoring Alexander Hamilton, The Great American Revolutionary
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- the act of freeing or the state of being freed from slavery, servitude, etc