【例文・単語帳】21-01-18_The language of incitement

英語

01-18に読んで、聞いて、シャドーイングした記事

記事の内容:はっきりとは言っていないが、受け取る方がどのように受け取るのかを考えるべきだった。

所感:はっきりと言ってないからと言って、許されるものではない。卑怯。

知らない単語があった文(Google dictionary)

The action of provoking unlawful behavior or urging someone to behave unlawfully.

Part of a president’s awesome power is that merely by opening his mouth he can set the official policy of the United States.

Just; only.

Now he has been impeached for an offence grounded in speech: incitement of insurrection.

The action of provoking unlawful behavior or urging someone to behave unlawfully.

A violent uprising against an authority or government.

On January 6th he delivered a tirade near the White House protesting that November’s election had been stolen from him.

A long, angry speech of criticism or accusation.

Mr Trump’s accusers say he incited the violence, his defenders that he merely gave a typically barnstorming speech, and was not responsible for the mob.

A person who claims that someone has committed an offense or done something wrong.

Tour rural districts giving theatrical performances, originally often in barns.

 American law does forbid “solicitation to commit a crime of violence”.

The act of asking for or trying to obtain something from someone.

Such speech was bannable only if “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and “likely to incite or produce such action”.

About to happen.

What he intended, though, is less starkly obvious.

In a way that is severe or harsh in appearance or outline.

Yet a direct command is hardly required to persuade someone to do something.

Cause (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument.

The crowd—containing, as the president ought to have known, numerous avowed extremists—could assume either that his superabundant fighting talk was irrelevant, or that his single mention of peaceful protest was.

That has been asserted, admitted, or stated publicly.

Excessive in quantity; more than sufficient; overabundant.

A luminary of classical liberalism, John Stuart Mill, defended speech that was hot-tempered even to a fault: “An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor…ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press,” Mill wrote.

A person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere.

Not pestered or molested; left in peace.

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