| 词汇 | blame and shame |
| 词源 | blame and shame. An important phrase in American history. As one of the judges who tried the Salem witchcraft trials in 1632, Samuel Sewall, a very humane person, publicly accepted “the blame and shame” for all of them when he discovered the error of his ways (19 people wrongly found guilty of witch- craft). Thereafter, he annually spent a day of fasting and prayer. |
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