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词汇 oppressing
释义 oppressing
present participle ofoppress
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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ruling & governing
administration
affairs of state
ascend
ascend the throneidiom
bipartisanship
government-sponsored
governmental
governmentally
governorate
hard Brexitidiom
oppression
oppressively
oppressiveness
overgovern
subjection
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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing anxiety and worry
agitate
alarming
alarmingly
bite
catch up with someone
come back to bite someoneidiom
disturb
frighten
frighten someone/something away/off
get/go beyond a jokeidiom
give someone the jimjamsidiom
give someone the jittersidiom
oppressive
rattle
roost
stressful
stressfully
suspenseful
suspensefully
suspensive

Examples of oppressing


oppressing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Even today women are suffering and brothers are oppressing, even if less than they did before 1954.
He felt the imposition of geometric ordering schemes as a deadening force, oppressing other kinds of ordering such as might arise from use or context.
This violence seems endemic to the human spirit, and is not an exclusive feature of one or another oppressing culture.
How can a tyrant's success in subjecting a population to his rule by force of arms give him the right to consent on behalf of those he is oppressing?
Petitions from the populace had long served the ruling order by facilitating the sultan's control of intermediaries who fleeced the treasury or damaged cultivation by oppressing the population.
It is also persecuting and oppressing individuals active in cyberspace, invoking undemocratic articles of the criminal code for the purpose.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We do not just cancel debt for any old dictatorship that is oppressing its poor.
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That is the oppressing preoccupation of educational administration at the present time.
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In how many is one part of the population oppressing another?
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It is really a question of how far a majority is prepared to exercise its rights without oppressing the minority.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It is not only a matter of oppressing people, but of denying them rights to which they are entitled.
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That desire is one that has no regard to oppressing any other people.
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It has had a most oppressing effect upon these people, who are only too anxious to help the country.
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They are a constant source of criminality, oppressing and enslaving people, endangering the life and limb even of children.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Oppressing the free media and banning opposition parties are two signals of authoritarian behaviour which should be condemned.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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