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Oppression is when someone with power treats a group of people in a cruel or unfair way, and stops them having the same rights and chances that other people have. It is not one rude moment. It sits on people over time — in laws, in jobs, in fear, in not being allowed to speak. The people under it are the oppressed; the weight itself is oppression. You might also hear it for a heavy feeling in a room, as if the air is hard to breathe, but the serious use is about power. It is a bigger, more public word than “being mean to someone.”
壓迫
組成From Middle English oppression, from Old French oppression, from Latin oppressiō (“a pressing down, violence, oppression”), from opprimō; see oppress.
同家族的字
- oppressthe verb this noun is built from
- oppressivethe adjective: cruelly heavy, or hard to breathe under
- oppressorthe person or group that does it
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
oppressionnoun/əˈpɹɛʃən/
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The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
- "Tibet challenges the conscience of the world," I told the audience at a gathering outside the town's main temple. "If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China's oppression in China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world."
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The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
- Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.
- We're choosing to use "anti-Jewishness" [rather than "anti-Semitism"] in recognition of the separate experiences and different oppressions of other peoples who also claim the name of "Semite."
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A feeling of being oppressed. Special usage may include a sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude.
- Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。