英语词汇stoning ground的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

stoning ground. This phrase puts one in mind of Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” (1949), but the practice of stoning was all too real under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Ac- cording to a New York Times story (12/28/01): “At the direction of the religious police—mostly young thugs . . . couples caught in adultery were led out to the ‘stoning ground’ before a mosque, the woman buried in a pit up to her head, the man tied hand and foot beside her, their children required to cast the first rocks.”

词汇	stoning ground
词源	stoning ground. This phrase puts one in mind of Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” (1949), but the practice of stoning was all too real under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Ac- cording to a New York Times story (12/28/01): “At the direction of the religious police—mostly young thugs . . . couples caught in adultery were led out to the ‘stoning ground’ before a mosque, the woman buried in a pit up to her head, the man tied hand and foot beside her, their children required to cast the first rocks.”
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