| 词汇 | oppress |
| 释义 | oppress verb uk /əˈpres/ us /əˈpres/ oppressverb (RULE)[ Toften passive ] to govern people in an unfair and cruel way and prevent them from having opportunities and freedom: 压迫;压制;欺压 For years now, the people have been oppressed by a ruthless dictator.多年来，人们一直处于残暴的独裁者的压迫之下。 Ruling & governing administration affairs of state ascend ascend the throneidiom bipartisanship government-sponsored governmental governmentally governorate hard Brexitidiom oppressive oppressively oppressiveness overgovern popular sovereignty subjugate subjugation super-government the politburo tinpot oppressverb (MAKE UNCOMFORTABLE)[ T ] to make a person feel uncomfortable or worried, and sometimes ill: 使烦恼；使焦虑；使不适 Strange dreams and nightmares oppressed him.怪梦和噩梦使他感到焦虑不安。 Causing anxiety and worry alarming alarmingly bite catch up with someone come back to bite someoneidiom disturb dread frighten frighten someone/something away/off get/go beyond a jokeidiom give someone the jimjamsidiom give someone the jittersidiom oppressive rattle roost stressfully suspenseful suspensefully suspensive swatting oppress | American Dictionaryoppress verb[ T ] us/əˈpres/ oppressverb[T] (RULE)to govern people in an unfair and cruel way and prevent them from having opportunities and freedom: In his speech he spoke against those who continue to oppress the poor. oppressverb[T] (MAKE UNCOMFORTABLE)to make a person feel uncomfortable or anxious: He's feeling oppressed by the approach of a deadline. oppressionnoun[ U ]us/əˈpreʃ·ən/ There’s less oppression and freer speech here now. oppressivelyadverbus/əˈpres·ɪv·li/ It was oppressively hot on the bus. oppressornoun[ C ]us/əˈpres·ər/ They’re not the powerful oppressors that society says they are. Examples of oppressoppress One handbill suggested that the people would happily accept a patriot king as long as they were not oppressed. The pensions and mercenaries that oppressed the poor, and the corrupted young men, must be done away with. We are not yet perfectly armed against dogmatism and the danger of oppressing scienti®c debate and criticism is still real. We have every reason to believe that he may be delusional, oppressed with the kinds of ' voices' associated with what we now call schizophrenia. The rest of the young men played the oppressed. Perhaps the writer also overrates the potential for an 'antioppressive social work' which 'stands with the oppressed' (see p. 110). The perspective is anthropological, and the goal is to improve practices that benefit people who are vulnerable or oppressed. In his personality he combined old-fashioned traits of elitist, ar istocratic behavior with empathy for oppressed, economically disadvantaged people and willingness to help individuals. They saw instead that racism was a dead-end street, and that oppressed races-including their own- would inevitably emerge from repression. The wildness oppressed the sensibility yet made it impossible to move away. If women were oppressed in the 1950s and 1960s, black women were much more so. On one hand, women are worshipped, but on the other, they are oppressed. Pitting oppressed groups against each other is counterproductive when the cure for oppression is to empower the people at the bottom. Feminism means at a minimum an affirmation that women of all groups are oppressed and that this oppression is wrong. Hence, where a group felt oppressed by a local headman, it could nominate and elect its own local leader to escape this oppression. See all examples of oppress These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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