维博福斯

維博福斯
Wéibófúsī
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Meanings

  1. 1 Wilberforce (transliteration of the English surname; most likely refers to William Wilberforce, 1759-1833, British MP and abolitionist)

Examples

Wéibófúsī yìshēng zhìlì yú fèichú núlì màoyì.
Wilberforce devoted his life to abolishing the slave trade.
Diànyǐng 《Qíyì ēndiǎn》 jiùshì jiǎng Wéibófúsī de gùshi.
The film 'Amazing Grace' tells the story of Wilberforce.

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history
Most likely 威廉·维博福斯 (William Wilberforce), the British evangelical MP whose decades-long campaign produced the 1807 Slave Trade Act and the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. The 2006 film 《奇异恩典》 (Amazing Grace) dramatises his life. Modern Chinese sources also write / 威尔伯 for the same name — there is no fully fixed transliteration.

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