civil right

名词 civil right:

1. right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality

1. Any attempts to bring under the mass movement for civil rights are doomed to failure.
   任何镇压民权群众运动的企图都是注定要失败的。
2. That law is an out-and-out infringement of our civil rights.
   (那项法令完全侵犯了我们的公民权。)