| 词汇 | suffragette |
| 释义 | suffragette noun[ C ] uk /ˌsʌf.rəˈdʒet/ us /ˌsʌf.rəˈdʒet/ a woman who campaigned for the right of women to vote, especially a member of the early 20th century British group of activitists led by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst（20世纪初英国、澳大利亚和美国）为女性争取选举权团体的成员 Elections absentee absentee ballot absentee vote absentee voter absentee voting enfranchisement entrance poll exit poll first-past-the-post flip proportional representation proxy proxy vote proxy voter proxy voting voting voting booth voting machine voting slip whistle-stop You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Human rights Examples of suffragettesuffragette These demonstrations offer an opportunity to examine the nature of militancy and explore some of the chief themes of suffragette historiography. One was that police methods had become more effective, keeping crowds moving and preventing suffragettes from driving up and holding their own meetings. The passions which might have been aroused by forcible feeding could not be mobilized on the suffragettes' side. But the suffragette mythology visibly fails to explain the events of 1909-10. The pattern of itinerant militancy continued even though rank-and-file suffragettes were practising it. What the suffragette army lacked was not discipline, but numbers, and a coherent strategy. It greatly increased the psychological pressure on all sides, and threatened to discredit the government by allowing suffragettes to evade the penalties of the law. Its secondary purpose was to get suffragettes into prison. Provocatively, her definition of the drama is inclusive, encompassing amateur and home theatricals as well as suffragette texts, translations and adaptations, and a distinctive subset of 'paratheatrical' writings. The suffragette gloss justified the ' rushes ' on parliament, the attempts to achieve interviews with ministers by force, and the appeal above the government to the general public. Magistrates and prison officials had to deal with 'ordinary ', rank-and-file suffragettes who were often first offenders. I want to describe some suffragette rough justice from 1910. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not the fact that until suffragettes were forcibly fed nobody suggested that forcible feeding was not a humane method? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She was a suffragette and one of those who began the campaign for family allowances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In 1913, suffragettes burned the grandstand to the ground in support of votes for women. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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