"It's a victory mosque they want to build," New Yorker John said, refusing to give his full name. Shaven-headed (光頭的) members of a far-right (極右的) British group, the English Defence League (該組織的名稱), joined contingents (一個職位) of current and former US service personnel (人事部), as did Dutch hardline anti-immigrant MP Greet Wilders. [ inverted sentence = as Dutch hardline anti-immigrant MP Greet Wilders did; pattern VS[O] vs. SV[O], bracketed means optional]
words in red = the simplified version of the sentence
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Wilders got a huge cheer when he exhorted the crowd to "draw this line so that New York ... will never become New Mecca".
You may not know what it exactly means because you may be not that familiar with the stuffs in US. I don't know either. |