一度他真的处于被处以私刑的危险之中。

At one point he was in danger of being lynched.

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我们曾被这样的套索处以私刑，我们曾被这样的套索谋杀。

The nooses are no prank. We were lynched, we were murdered.

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德雷经常为社会的不公平现象而义愤填膺，在“看不见的手”一文中，德雷再次对美国南部的白人对黑人处以私刑表达了愤慨之情。

Once again, as in "At the Hands of Persons Unknown", his account of the lynching of blacks by whites in the American South, Mr Dray is angered by injustice.

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