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Broad Strongly Suggests Proposing Write Laundry List Specific

en The broad language of the amendment strongly suggests that its framers were proposing to write into the Constitution not a laundry list of specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizenship that forbids organized society from treating any individual as a member of an inferior class.
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意群训练: The broad languag e of the amendmen t strongly suggests that its framer s were proposing t o write into the Constitutio n not a laundry list of specific civil rights but a principl e of equal citizenshi p that forbids organized societ y from treatin g any individual a s a member o f an inferior class .

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标志: The broad language of the amendment strongly suggests that its framers were proposing to write /into the Constitution/ not a laundry list of specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizenship (that forbids organized society from treating any individual as a member of an inferior class).

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译文: 这个修正案的宽泛的语言 强烈地显示出其制定者 不是 想把一个详细的 公民权的清单 /入宪法/,而是 要写入 一个平等的公民权的原则 ,(那就是 禁止 有组织的社会 把任何个人当作劣等阶级的成员对待)。

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解释: 本句的倒装还算友好,介词into的宾语the Constitution比较短,然后马上是write的宾语。而且本句的结构也算合理,避免了头重脚轻。如果真按照正常语序来写,那么句子只有更难读懂。即:

The broad language of the amendment strongly suggests that its framers were proposing to write not a laundry list of specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizenship that forbids organized society from treating any individual as a member of an inferior class into the Constitution.

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