1[countableC, uncountableU]UNFAIR a situation in which people are treated very unfairly and not given their rights 不公正,非正义
injustice of
the injustice of slavery
奴隶制的不公正
injustice against
innumerable injustices against the black population
对黑人难以计数的不公正行为
The movie deals with injustices suffered by Native Americans.
这部电影讲述印第安人受到的不公正待遇。
He had developed a deep sense of social injustice.
他深深感到社会的不公。
2do somebody an injusticeCHARACTER/PERSONALITYto judge someone’s character or abilities unfairly 冤枉某人
To say that you are a poor cook is to do yourself an injustice.
你说厨艺不行可是冤枉自己了。
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do somebody an injustice• Cutting the benefits of war veterans would be doing them a great injustice.• But they do themselves an injustice.• Indeed, it may well serve to do some injustice and violence to the integrity of the substantivephenomena.
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injustice• She will be remembered for her ceaselesscampaigning against injustice.• The group, called the Wilmington 10, were active in protests against racialinjustices in the schools in the early 1970s.• racial injustice• These injustices are intolerable, especially when the victims are children.
sense of ... injustice• A sense of injustice therefore existed in some schools which, for whatever reasons, were not among the chosen few.• The rage and sense of injustice, for a separatist, is not powerfully enough voiced anywhere else.• This is not to say that they normally have no sense of injustice.• Our sense of injustice has been shared by three seniorjournalseditors we have discussed the matter with.• Perhaps the person experiences an overwhelmingsense of injustice which renders them less capable of dealing with the problem a second time.• However, a smoulderingsense of injustice at the manner of this defeat may provide the spur Wimbledon need.• The other was the sense of injustice experienced by the subordinate classes at seeing the schemedropped.• Even so, prisoners do not normally riot unless this sense of injustice has been somehow inflamedbeyond its normalsimmering state.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + INJUSTICE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤grave, great, gross, terrible嚴重的不公;極為不公;非常不公▸➤perceived感受到的不公▸➤economic, environmental, historical, political, racial, social經濟上的不公平;環境方面的不公正;歷史上的不公;政治上的不公正;種族歧視;社會的不公正VERB + INJUSTICE➤experience, suffer經受/遭受不公◇He suffered the injustice of being punished for a crime which he did not commit.他未犯罪而受罰,蒙受了不白之冤。➤regard sth as認為⋯不公正◇The trial was regarded as the greatest injustice of the post-war criminal justice system.那次審判被認為是戰後刑事司法體系中最不公正的一次。➤cause (law法律) , commit, do (sb/yourself)引起不公正;做不公正的事;待(某人/自己)不公正◇She remains adamant that an injustice was done.她依然堅持認為那件事情不公平。◇We may have been doing him an injustice. This work is good.我們可能委屈他了,其實這件作品很不錯。➤expose揭露不公正◇a novel that sets out to expose social injustice旨在揭露社會不公的一部小說➤see看到不公◇They see the injustice and want to help.他們看到了其中的不公,因而想要出手相助。➤fight, fight against, protest, protest against, speak out against, struggle against反抗不公正;抗議不公平;大膽抨擊不公正;與不公正鬥爭◇She was acclaimed for speaking out against injustice.她因為大膽抨擊不公現象而受到讚揚。➤correct, rectify, redress, remedy糾正不公平;糾正不公正的行為◇people who work hard to correct society's injustices致力於糾正社會種種不公現象的人➤stop結束不公正PREPOSITION➤injustice by⋯的不公正行為◇a terrible injustice by the police警察極為不公正的行為➤injustice to對⋯的不公正◇It would be an injustice to the man to imprison him for life.判處終身監禁對他是不公平的。PHRASES➤the injustice of it all整個情形的不公平◇She was overwhelmed by the injustice of it all (= of the situation).不公平的現狀讓她受不了。➤a sense of injustice, a victim of injustice遭受不公待遇的感覺;不公正行為的受害者