| 正面 | 13434.oppress 英 [ə'pres]美 [ə'prɛs]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. 被压者带有一种抵触情绪，就是说一种不情愿、带有抵触性的被压制。vt. 压迫，压抑；使……烦恼；使……感到沉重 例句： 1. He states uncompromisingly that he is opposed to any practices which oppress animals.他坚决声明反对任何虐待动物的行为。 oppress 压制，压迫op-,在上，表强调，press,压，按，逼迫。引申词义压制，压迫。 oppressoppress: see pressoppress (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." |