名詞 civil right:

1. right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality

1. Any attempts to bring under the mass movement for civil rights are doomed to failure.
   任何鎮(zhèn)壓民權(quán)群眾運動的企圖都是注定要失敗的。
2. That law is an out-and-out infringement of our civil rights.
   (那項法令完全侵犯了我們的公民權(quán)。)