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单词 oppress
释义
oppress
verb
uk
/əˈpres/us
/əˈpres/

oppressverb(RULE)

[Toften passive]
togovernpeoplein anunfairandcruelway andpreventthem from havingopportunitiesandfreedom:
压迫；压制；欺压
Foryearsnow, thepeoplehave been oppressed by aruthlessdictator.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-owned
  • government-sponsored
  • governmental
  • governorate
  • hard Brexitidiom
  • oppressive
  • oppressively
  • oppressiveness
  • overgovern
  • power-sharing
  • repression
  • subjugation
  • super-government
  • the politburo
  • tinpot
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oppressverb(MAKE UNCOMFORTABLE)

[T]
to make apersonfeeluncomfortableorworried, and sometimesill:
使烦恼；使焦虑；使不适
Strangedreamsandnightmaresoppressed him.怪梦和噩梦使他感到焦虑不安。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing anxiety and worry
  • alarming
  • alarmingly
  • bite
  • catch up withsomeone
  • come back/home to roostidiom
  • disturb
  • dread
  • frighten
  • frightensomeone/somethingaway/off
  • get/go beyond a jokeidiom
  • givesomeonethe jimjamsidiom
  • givesomeonethe jittersidiom
  • rattle
  • roost
  • stressful
  • suspenseful
  • swatting
  • tense
  • tenseness
  • trigger
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(Definition ofoppressfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

oppress| American Dictionary

oppress
verb[T]
us
/əˈpres/

oppressverb[T](RULE)

togovernpeoplein anunfairandcruelway andpreventthem from havingopportunitiesandfreedom:
In hisspeechhespokeagainst those whocontinueto oppress thepoor.

oppressverb[T](MAKE UNCOMFORTABLE)

to make apersonfeeluncomfortableoranxious:
He'sfeelingoppressed by theapproachof adeadline.

oppression

noun[U]us
/əˈpreʃ·ən/
There’s less oppression andfreerspeechhere now.

oppressively

adverbus
/əˈpres·ɪv·li/
It was oppressivelyhoton thebus.

oppressor

noun[C]us
/əˈpres·ər/
They’re not thepowerfuloppressorsthatsocietysays they are.
(Definition ofoppressfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoppress

oppress
One handbill suggested that the people would happily accept a patriot king as long as they were not oppressed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The pensions and mercenaries that oppressed the poor, and the corrupted young men, must be done away with.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We are not yet perfectly armed against dogmatism and the danger of oppressing scienti®c debate and criticism is still real.
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We have every reason to believe that he may be delusional, oppressed with the kinds of ' voices' associated with what we now call schizophrenia.
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The rest of the young men played the oppressed.
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Perhaps the writer also overrates the potential for an 'antioppressive social work' which 'stands with the oppressed' (see p. 110).
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The perspective is anthropological, and the goal is to improve practices that benefit people who are vulnerable or oppressed.
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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.
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They saw instead that racism was a dead-end street, and that oppressed races-including their own- would inevitably emerge from repression.
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The wildness oppressed the sensibility yet made it impossible to move away.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If women were oppressed in the 1950s and 1960s, black women were much more so.
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On one hand, women are worshipped, but on the other, they are oppressed.
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In nationalist rhetoric 'our people' can be triumphant or oppressed, gloriously conscious of their rightful place in history or tragically neglectful of it.
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Pitting oppressed groups against each other is counterproductive when the cure for oppression is to empower the people at the bottom.
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Feminism means at a minimum an affirmation that women of all groups are oppressed and that this oppression is wrong.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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