| 单词 |
hartal |
| 释义 |
hartal India.
(ˈhɑːtæl, ‖ ˈhʌrtaːl)
[Hind. hartāl for haṭtāl lit. ‘locking of shops’ (Skr. haṭṭa shop, tālaka lock, bolt).]
Organized shutting of shops and cessation of business, to serve, usually, as a protest against government legislation or a political situation, or as an act of mourning.
1920Blackw. Mag. Apr. 441/1 What I had seen there of the crowds at the Hartal..had made me nervous. 1921Q. Rev. July 54 He proclaimed a universal ‘hartal’, or cessation from business, as a protest against the Rowlatt legislation. 1922Ibid. Oct. 417 Gandhi was preparing a Hartal at Bombay. 1931Daily Tel. 6 Jan. 9/5 The Moslems enforced a complete ‘hartal’ (day of mourning or strike). 1955Times 18 Aug. 8/5 A hartal to be observed throughout India on Friday was called here to-day by the Goa liberation committee in memory of the Indians killed by Portuguese fire on Monday. 1958J. V. Bondurant Conquest of Violence iii. 36 Non-cooperation may include strike, walk-out, hartal, and resignation of offices and titles. Ibid. iv. 119 The hartal is usually of short duration—a day or two. Shops close and work ceases. Hartal is also employed at times of national mourning. 1962A. Carter Direct Action 8 At the beginning of the Rowlatt Act Satyagraha Gandhi called on his followers for a ‘hartal’—a day of abstention from work and of fasting and prayer. |
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