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单词 oppression
释义
oppression
noun[U]
uk
/əˈpreʃ.ən/us
/əˈpreʃ.ən/

oppressionnoun[U](RULE)

asituationin whichpeoplearegovernedin anunfairandcruelway andpreventedfrom havingopportunitiesandfreedom:
压迫；压制；欺压
Everyhumanbeing has therighttofreedomfrom oppression.每个人都有权不受压迫。
War,famineand oppression haveforcedpeoplein theregiontofleefromtheirhomes.战争、饥荒和压迫迫使这个地区的人们逃离了自己的家园。
the oppressionofwomen对妇女的压迫
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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oppressionnoun[U](FEELINGS)

afeelingof being veryuncomfortableandworried:
烦闷；压抑；郁闷
Severalpeoplehadexperiencedthe samefeelingof oppression when theysleptin thatroom.几个曾在那间屋子里睡过觉的人都感到了同样的压抑。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Anxiety and worry - general words
  • agita
  • agitation
  • angst
  • anti-stress
  • apprehension
  • jitters
  • nerve
  • nervousness
  • overwork
  • panic attack
  • perturbation
  • strain
  • tension
  • the collywobbles
  • the heebie-jeebies
  • tizzy
  • trepidation
  • uneasiness
  • vexation
  • willie
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(Definition ofoppressionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoppression

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The enemy's oppressions, his depredations, his cruelties and his crimes have been done on other soil than ours.
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Two wrongs never make a right but create new oppressions and divisions in society.
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Their revolt was basically against the oppressions of the feudal controls on the labour market.
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There—in the camps of capitalism—national enmity and inequality, colonial slavery and chauvinism, national oppressions and pograms, imperialistic brutalities and wars.
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Minor oppressions are inclined to be overlooked.
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If a law to secure collective title were passed and widely applied, she contended, it would constitute an act ofoppression.
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He has known so muchoppressionthat he either accepts the status quo without question or else he breaks forth in revolutionary activities.
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Focusing on social conflict with men rather than intrapsychic contradictions in women, they deal with socialoppression, as it were, rather than psychic repression.
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They would be more sensitive to the vagaries ofoppressionin the work regime and social discipline of their holdings, and could calibrate appropriate responses.
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Of late, however, the biopolitical project has turned ' pernicious ' and has become a tool ofoppression.
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At any rate, they established neither a threshold ofoppressionnor a procedure to oust a derelict leader.
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Coherence is lost by calling upon the coercive power of the state to protect against verbaloppression, thereby subordinating and marginalizing some members of society.
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Why should the theoretical confusion of 'being free' with 'feeling free' carry with it the possibility of justifyingoppression?
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Political factionalism and theoppressionof the poor by moneyleaders, for example, absorbed at least as much of his attention.
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Nevertheless, the detested forms of humanoppressionare not enough, so to speak.
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Collocationswithoppression

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class oppression
This was to lose its historical character as an instrument ofclassoppressionisolated from the people.
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form of oppression
Given the often terrifyingly eventful lives that our participants had led, the daily routines of education and employment could seem at best unexciting and at worst anotherformofoppression.
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instrument of oppression
The colonial army was aninstrumentofoppression, but it also kept peace and seemed to have its place in the new order of things.
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