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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Two tricky expression ‘a tyranny of’ and ‘a demos of’
The following passage is from the website as follows:
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&tocp=8
The great drive to universal suffrage, religious tolerance and female emancipation began with pragmatic enthusiasts for free enterprise, like Ben Franklin, and was pressed forward by the urban bourgeoisie as a response to economic growth. Right into the twentieth century tsars and general secretaries found it an awful lot easier to dictate a tyranny of peasants than a demos of bourgeois consumers. Parliamentary reform began in Britain in the 1830s because of the grotesque under-representation of the growing manufacturing towns.
In this paragraph, the meaning of the under lined expression is hard to grasp.
I couldn’t find in dictionary the right meaning of these two expressions.
(Actually 'a tyranny of people means mobocracy,' but it doesn't fit right with the sentence in question.)
Thinking of this and that, I just put ‘a lot of’ in both underlined parts, and presto, it makes sense.
Do you agree with me?
If not, can you tell me why?
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&tocp=8
The great drive to universal suffrage, religious tolerance and female emancipation began with pragmatic enthusiasts for free enterprise, like Ben Franklin, and was pressed forward by the urban bourgeoisie as a response to economic growth. Right into the twentieth century tsars and general secretaries found it an awful lot easier to dictate a tyranny of peasants than a demos of bourgeois consumers. Parliamentary reform began in Britain in the 1830s because of the grotesque under-representation of the growing manufacturing towns.
In this paragraph, the meaning of the under lined expression is hard to grasp.
I couldn’t find in dictionary the right meaning of these two expressions.
(Actually 'a tyranny of people means mobocracy,' but it doesn't fit right with the sentence in question.)
Thinking of this and that, I just put ‘a lot of’ in both underlined parts, and presto, it makes sense.
Do you agree with me?
If not, can you tell me why?
Top answer
Stenka25 easier to dictate a tyranny of peasants than a demos of bourgeois consumers. the meaning of the unde rl ined expression is hard to grasp. I agree.
- Stenka25 easier to dictate a tyranny of peasants than a demos of bourgeois consumers.
- the meaning of the unde rl ined expression is hard to grasp.
- I agree.
- For one thing, I'm surprised it didn't say "easier to dictate to a ...
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Stenka25easier to dictate a tyranny of peasants than a demos of bourgeois consumers. ... the meaning of the underlined expression is hard to grasp.I agree. For one thing, I'm surprised it didn't say "easier to dictate to a ... than to a ...". That aside, 'tyranny' and 'demos' almost seem like i
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First, this is apparently a self-punished, self-edited online book, so right there you're not going to have the quality that you'd find in a hardcover book published by a well-known publisher. Moreover, the writer has an unusual syntax - the way he uses the word "dictate" is unconventional, and the word "demos" I've never seen in my entire life before this (this is an extremely unusual word, alth
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