oppress

英 [?'pres] 美[?'pr?s]

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第三人稱單數:?oppresses;過去式:?oppressed;過去分詞:?oppressed;現在分詞:?oppressing;名詞:?oppression;

1. 被壓者帶有一種抵觸情緒，就是說一種不情愿、帶有抵觸性的被壓制。

oppress 壓制，壓迫

op-,在上，表強調，press,壓，按，逼迫。引申詞義壓制，壓迫。

oppress: oppress: see press
oppress (v.): mid-14c., from Old French opresser "oppress, afflict; torment, smother" (13c.), from Medieval Latin oppressare, frequentative of Latin opprimere "press against, press together, press down;" figuratively "crush, put down, subdue, prosecute relentlessly" (in Late Latin "to rape"), from ob "against" (see ob-) + premere "to press, push" (see press (v.1)).
It is the due [external] restraint and not the moderation of rulers that constitutes a state of liberty; as the power to oppress, though never exercised, does a state of slavery. [St. George Tucker, "View of the Constitution of the United States," 1803]
Related: Oppressed; oppressing.

1. He states uncompromisingly that he is opposed to any practices which oppress animals.: 他堅決聲明反對任何虐待動物的行為。

2. The imperialists exploit and oppress all the peoples of the world.: 帝國主義者剝削和壓迫全世界人民.

4. This is a dream in which things are all loose and they oppress.: 在夢中,一切事都散漫著,都壓著我,但這不過是一個夢呀.

5. They crush your people, O LORD; they oppress your inheritance.: 耶和華阿, 他們強壓你的百姓, 苦害你的產業.