the peculiar institution

常见例句

双语例句

• Many northerners used this book as a weapon against the South's peculiar institution.
  小说讲述了发生在美国南部地区一个黑人奴隶与他残酷的主人之间的故事。

权威例句

• "Being a problem is a strange experience, " he wrote, "peculiar even, " no doubt evoking the "peculiar institution" of slavery.
  NPR: Many Arab-Americans Still Perceived As A 'Problem'
• Let's take the unasked for advice of those who have told us to forget about America's peculiar institution.
  NPR: Living in the Present Means Taking Focus off Past
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