So cowed was their condition, and so long and so hardtheir experience of what such a ma n could do to them, withinthe law and beyond it,that not a voice or a hand or even aneye wa s raised.

• 平行结构是英语一种常用的修辞伎俩，两个或几个结构平行分句或句子连续运用句法因素类似的有标志主位，能突出夸大某种信息，增强句子的节奏感。