oppress

• vt. 壓迫，壓抑；使……煩惱；使……感到沉重

op-,在上，表強調，press,壓，按，逼迫。引申詞義壓製，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。

來自柯林斯例句

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.

來自辭典例句

3. A good ruler will not oppress the poor.

好的統治者不會壓迫貧民.

來自辭典例句

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.

來自辭典例句

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.

來自互聯網