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News Review: 100 year anniversary for women's rights
source: BBC Learning English 2018年2月6日
Rob and Dan teach you the language the world's media is using to discuss this story:
Today marks 100 years since The Representation of the People Act was passed, giving women the right to vote.
The change in law affected women the age of 30 who met certain property qualifications, but full electoral equality didn’t follow for another decade.
Vocabulary:
pardoned:officially forgiven for committing a crime
caricature: exaggerated depiction of someone
sanitised: made less offensive or unpleasant
Try our quiz to see how well you've learned today's language: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/...