1. A few weeks ago, five people who were selling papers outside Hyde Park were arrested by the police for obstruction. When taken before magistrates they were all found guilty, four of them being bound over for six months and the other sentenced to forth shillings' fine or a month's imprisonment.
- obstruction: 방해, obstacle
- magistrate: 하급 판사
- bind over: in UK, 집행유예를 말한다.
2. The papers these people were selling were Peace News, Forward and Freedom, besides other kindred literature.
- kindred: 친족
- kindred literature: 그와 유사한 부류의 문학작품들을 이렇게 표현.
3. its politics defy definition, but at any rate it is violently Left.
- defy: refuse to obey
4. how does the law stand on the subject?
- stand on: 권리를 존중하다, 단호히 요구하다, insist on
5. the enforcement of the law depends on the discretion of the police.
- "~의 재량에 달려있다"를 영어로 하고 싶을때 이 표현을 쓰자. A depend on the discretion of B. A는 B의 재량에 달려있다.
- discretion: 재량
6. It's a bit too much of a coincidence that they should have picked on people selling just those papers.
- "이건 너무한 우연이다."를 영어로? it's too much of a coincidence.
7. I do not think one maligns them in saying that, in the past, they have been unfriendly to left-wing activities.
- malign: defame
8. gendarmerie: 프랑스 헌병대
9. he is a permanency
- permanency: 종신관
10. I was told once that its "line," if any, was to represent the left-wing of the government in power.
- if any: 만약, 설사 있다고 하더라도.
11. the main point of this episode is that the sellers of newspapers and pamphlets should be interfered with at all.
- if any가 반드시 부정문에서만 쓰이는 건 아니다. '어쨌든' 이라는 의미로 해석되는 맥락에서 긍정문(부정어가 없는 문장)에서도 쓰인다.
12. (they) all taking their turn at the rostrum in an orderly way and receiving a fairly good-humoured hearing from the crowd.
- rostrum: 강단, 연단
13. not merely a flutter in sections of the minority press.
- flutter: 푸드덕거림. 그러니까 소수 언론의 섹션에서 잠깐 퍼득거리듯 나오는 것이 아니라 이 문제가 주요하게 다루어져야 함을 말하는 글.
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