| 词汇 | tyrant |
| 释义 | tyrant noun[ C ] uk /ˈtaɪə.rənt/ us /ˈtaɪ.rənt/ a ruler who has unlimited power over other people, and uses it unfairly and cruelly: 暴君;暴虐的人;专横的人 Tamir, one of several sons of the exiled ruler, vowed he would liberate his country from the tyrant.塔米尔是被放逐的君主的几个儿子中的一个，他发誓要把国家从暴君手中解放出来。 figurativehumorousOvernight my boss seems to have turned into a tyrant.我的老板一夜之间似乎变成了一个暴君。 Synonyms autocrat despot dictatordisapproving Powerful people & dictators absolute authority all-powerful anti-establishment authoritarian autocrat despot dictator dictatorial establishment figurehead grey eminence non-establishment oligarch oppressor plutocrat potentate tinpot voiceless warlord éminence grise Examples of tyranttyrant If she is guilty, so was her tyrant-victim. On the evidence of this volume the fourteenth century was indeed not a propitious period for would-be tyrants. In our case, how did the rapacious tyrant arrange the theft? Should a ruler become a tyrant, he could be overthrown by force. For this, they were either praised as mighty emperors or stigmatized as tyrants. Instead, he is replaced by the modern character of the tyrant, the martyr, the courtier. This tyrant exceeds all others in quantity and type of evil, and is, therefore, unique. Our natural protection, our need for security in dealing with this excessively inhuman traffic, are making of us executioners and tyrants at once. We will no longer be unworthy sons, tyrant's pupils ! We will no longer be unworthy sons, tyrant's pupils! Proverbially, the "king" is both tyrant and scapegoat. Political arguments drawn from analogy are discredited by placing them in the mouth of a tyrant. He seized the lightning from heaven and the scepter from tyrants. So, as the poet sees it, to avert the tyrant's wrath the critic should resort to pidgin. 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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