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Meaning of 断章取义

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duàn zhāng (Trad.: 斷章取義)
to quote out of context (idiom)
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1
His heart bled over certain phrases taken out of context.
2
"My comments have been taken so out of context and have been spun by the Obama campaign as racist, that you know, it is doing precisely what they do not want done, " she said.
3
They say that Mark' s instruction to scouts to kill poachers was taken out of context.
4
Of course, both police and protesters can complain about footage being shown out of context.
5
if we take single passages torn from their context and compare them with one another contradictions are not likely to be lacking especially a work that is written with any freedom of expression.