焚书坑儒fén shū kēng rú

burning books and burying Confucian scholars alive [by Qin Shihuang,the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty]; ban books and prosecute scholars
❍ 十一.～，荼毒青年，威迫利诱，斫丧人格； …… (《周恩来选集》上—153) 11. Ban books and persecute scholars,corrupt young people,threaten and cajole,and destroy moral integrity; …/满清入主中原，～多少次，杀了多少有民族思想的人。(梁斌《红旗谱》340) When the Manchus came into China,they burned books and persecuted scholars time and again,killing more patriots than we can count.
❍ 入侵者要求实行奴化教育，他们就～——爱国的青年学生、学者、教授、新闻记者继续大批地被捕枪杀。The invaders’insistence that the people be taught to be slaves,made them start burning books and burying scholars alive just as the First Emperor of China did.There has been a whole series of arrests and murders of patriotic students,scholars,professors and jour nalists.

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