oppresses

英 [əˈpresɪz]

美 [əˈpresɪz]

v.  压迫; 欺压; 压制; 压抑; 使窒息; 使烦恼
oppress的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 压迫；压制
  Tooppresspeople means to treat them cruelly, or to prevent them from having the same opportunities, freedom, and benefits as others.
  1. These people often are oppressed by the governments of the countries they find themselves in...
     这些人经常受到所在国政府的压迫。
  2. We are not normal like everybody else. If we were they wouldn't be oppressing us.
     我们跟其他正常人不一样。否则，他们就不会压迫我们了。
• VERB 使心情沉重；使压抑；使苦恼
  If somethingoppressesyou, it makes you feel depressed, anxious, and uncomfortable.
  1. The place oppressed Aubrey even before his eyes adjusted to the dark...
     奥布里的眼睛还没有适应黑暗之前，这地方便已经让他觉得很压抑了。
  2. It was not just the weather which oppressed her.
     让她心烦的不只是天气。

双语例句

• This theme is expressed in the truism that "no nation which oppresses another can itself be free".
  这一点已经表现在尽人皆知的真理里：凡是压迫别国的国家，自己也不可能有自由。
• Consequently, when she gave birth to a daughter three years ago, she decided she needed to act: she gathered a group of powerful women together, to make a film about the way that the media industry misrepresents-ie oppresses-women.
  因此，她在3年前生下女儿后，决定自己必须采取行动：她召集了一批有影响力的女性，着手制作一部电影，揭示媒体行业如何不实陈述（即压迫）妇女。
• The people will react against the political system that oppresses them.
  人民会反抗压迫他们的政治制度。
• We hate Japanese imperialism because Japanese imperialism oppresses us.
  我们恨日本帝国主义，是日本帝国主义压迫我们的结果。
• She never denies the poverty that drives her parents and oppresses her brothers, even as she reveals their cruelty.
  她从不否认贫穷驱使她的父母和她的兄弟压迫，甚至当她发现自己的残酷。
• Second is, on the combining form of point of view and narrator, to realize the text on through a special point of view and narrators who deliberately oppresses or delays information in two functional cases.
  另外，在视角与叙述者组合形式上，通过特定的聚焦视角，和在两个功能性事件中别有用心地压制或延宕信息的叙述者，来实现文本的叙事。
• The nature of a state embodies the means of one class that oppresses another class.
  国家的本质是一个阶级压迫另一个阶级的手段和工具。
• What is more, rationality, after entering the stage of history, turns to be the new king that oppresses and repels all forms of so-called "irrationality".
  第三，理性在登上历史舞台后成为新的神话，变成压抑、排斥所谓非理性的工具。
• This state-monopoly capitalism oppresses not only the workers and peasants but also the urban petty bourgeoisie, and it injures the middle bourgeoisie.
  这个国家垄断资本主义，不但压迫工人农民，而且压迫城市小资产阶级，损害中等资产阶级。
• The state apparatus, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument by which one class oppresses another.
  军队、警察、法庭等项国家机器，是阶级压迫阶级的工具。