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单词 subjugation
释义
subjugation
noun[U]
formal
uk
/ˌsʌb.dʒəˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsʌb.dʒəˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
theactofdefeatingpeopleor acountryandrulingthem in a way thatallowsthem nofreedom:
征服
They arebravelyresistingsubjugation bytheirmorepowerfulneighbours.他们勇敢地抵抗更强大的邻居，不愿臣服。
theactoftreatingapersonortheirwishesorbeliefsas lessimportantthan otherpeopleortheirwishesorbeliefs:
（对愿望、信仰等的）克制，抑制
The subjugation of women is acentralthemein herwork.女性所遭受的奴役是她作品的一个中心主题。
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  • Hitler'smainobjectivewas thetotalsubjugation of theSovietUnion.
  • The mostfamouscampaignin theconquestis Hernando Cortes'sinvasionand subjugation of Mexico in 1519-21.
  • Dopeoplereallythinkthe subjugation of theAboriginalpeoplesneverhappened?
  • Indiasufferedalongperiodofcolonialsubjugation.
  • For twentyyearsover fifteen millionpeoplewerekeptinabsolutesubjugation.
  • Racial subjugation wasenforcedbylaw.
  • He did notrunaway,believinghis subjugation wouldsecurehim aplaceinparadise.
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subjugate
(Definition ofsubjugationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubjugation

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The resulting problem seemed stark, if not insurmountable: whilesubjugationcompromised attempts at assimilation, assimilation would falter in the absence of the necessary transformation.
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Traditional marriage was thus predicated on the assumption of female inferiority and her necessarysubjugationto men.
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In the village there was, of course, economic hardship, physical strain, battering and above all male control andsubjugation.
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Support for people in their own resolves and thus in exercising their own liberty, rather thansubjugationto idealist tutelage, had a wide appeal.
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Subjugationcould be s. exercised over a number of domains-first and foremost of which was one's own self.
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During thesubjugationof the developing world, explorers often screened agricultural materials for new and useful purposes.
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Though these divisions had not crystallised into clear-cut stereotypes, a search for cultural identity in a colonial climate ofsubjugationneeded a framework of distinction.
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She 'participated willingly if unwittingly in an ideological process that ultimately reinforced the colonizers' culturalsubjugationof the colonized' (p. 98).
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Interaction between customers and salespersons is characterized by domination of a transaction frame andsubjugationof valet and consultation frames.
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Through the conditioning of subjects' desires - whether by those subjects themselves or by their oppressors - a state ofsubjugationmay masquerade as one of freedom.
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The surroundings emphasise the spatial, economic and social legacy ofsubjugationthat should never be forgotten.
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Perhaps the most radical change would be the effectivesubjugationof research to the higher goal of product development.
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Militarysubjugationled inexorably to the expropriation of land and to the arrival of 1 million colonial settlers.
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Mostly they were kept in a position of dependency through subtle forms ofsubjugation, but occasionally they managed to attain leadership positions.
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Such an apparently "primitive" government, however powerful in its own context, would seem incapable of real resistance to imperialsubjugation.
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