injustice

in·jus·tice /ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs/ noun

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。

2 do somebody an injustice CHARACTER/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 substantive phenomena.

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injustice• She will be remembered for her ceaseless campaigning against injustice.• The group, called the Wilmington 10, were active in protests against racial injustices 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 senior journals editors we have discussed the matter with.• Perhaps the person experiences an overwhelming sense of injustice which renders them less capable of dealing with the problem a second time.• However, a smouldering sense 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 scheme dropped.• Even so, prisoners do not normally riot unless this sense of injustice has been somehow inflamed beyond its normal simmering state.

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