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标题: People in Ghana Learn Legalese [打印本页]

作者: choi 时间: 5-15-2013 15:53
标题: People in Ghana Learn Legalese
伊丽莎白•欧赫内, 记者来鸿：加纳一大怪----全民皆律师. BBC Chinese, May 15, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ians_legalese.shtml

, which is translated from

Elizabeth Ohene, Letter from Africa: Ghanaians Learn Legalese. BBC, May 9, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22458678

Note:
(a) Ghana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana
was British colony 1896-1957. Its capital and largest city is Accra.
(b) "we put it to each other"

put sth to sb. Cambridge Dictionaries Online, undated.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/put-sth-to-sb
(c) "we ask each other for further and better particulars"

particular (n):
"a specific item or detail of information —usually used in plural <wanted to know all the particulars of the incident> <bill of particulars>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/particular

Basically, particulars means details in legal jargon.
(d) "In the process of all the bowing and scraping, and the use of arcane language, many myths are being dispelled."

bow and scrape: "to show too much politeness or attention to someone"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/bow-and-scrape

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