jack-booted
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
动词 v.
- simple past and past participle of jack-boot
形容词 adj.
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Alternative form of jackbooted.
— She seemed to feel silent, jack-booted watchers standing outside frightened houses, figures kneeling to scrub the pavements, children coldly excluded from their familiar playgrounds, the informer's whisper in the café, fear and suspicion like rheumatism fastening upon the easy intercourse of friends—all the vicious little tricks of modern tyranny.
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