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

• He intends to quarrel with the guard but he oppresses his anger coming back to the car.
  杰克想跟那个保安员讲讲理，可是他压住火，回到车里。
• In Light in August Faulkner presents us a world, in which racism plays a dominant role and oppresses human nature.
  《八月之光》展示给我们一个种族主义压抑人性的荒诞世界。
• 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 result of "employer fixes the price" is that surging colony bully oppresses, exploits and swindles the disadvantaged groups unjustly and seriously.
  雇主定价的结果是强势群体欺压、剥削、欺诈弱势群体的严重不公。
• Will the people one day react against the political system that oppresses them?
  人们有一天会反抗压迫他们的政治制度吗？
• Moreover, you should learn about what stimulates and oppresses them.
  此外，你需要知道是什么触发了这些缺点，并且如何克服它们。
• What is more, it oppresses and exploits the workers.
  他们又是压迫和剥削工人的。
• 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。
• That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open.
  这压迫我的，到底是我欲冲出籓篱迎向开阔的灵魂，还是敲唤欲进入我的心的那世。
• 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。