Others who were permitted to take the oath, hotly refused to do so, scorning to swear allegiance to a government which was deliberately subjecting them to cruelty and humiliation.

• 其他的人是允许宣誓的，可他们却坚决拒绝，决不向一个有意要他们屈服于残暴和羞辱之下的政府宣誓效忠。