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    To subjugate a people or a country is to beat them and force them to live under your control. It is a strong, formal word with force inside it — armies, empires, colonisers.

    To subjugate a people or a country你subjugate一個民族或國家 is to beat them and force them to live under your control意思是打敗他們，強迫他們活在你的控制之下 It is a strong, formal word with force inside it這是個語氣強烈、正式的字，本身帶著武力的意味 armies, empires, colonisers常出現在軍隊、帝國、殖民者的語境裡

    You subjugate by defeating first, and the obeying comes after, which is why it usually appears with conquest and war rather than with ordinary . It carries clear : almost nobody says 'we subjugated them' about their own side.

    You subjugate by defeating firstsubjugate的順序是先打敗對方 and the obeying comes after服從才在後面出現 which is why it usually appears with conquest and war rather than with ordinary politics這也是為什麼它常常跟征服、戰爭一起出現，而不是一般的政治場合 It carries clear disapproval這個字帶著明顯的負面評價 almost nobody says 'we subjugated them' about their own side幾乎沒有人會用'we subjugated them'來講自己這一方

    There is a second use that a will meet in reading: you can subjugate a feeling or a need — 'she subjugated her own ambitions to her family's needs' — meaning she pushed her own wants down and made them serve something else. Here the force is inward, not military, but the same picture holds: something is being held down under something stronger.

    There is a second use that a learner will meet in reading閱讀時還會遇到第二種用法 you can subjugate a feeling or a need可以subjugate一種情感或需求 'she subjugated her own ambitions to her family's needs'像'she subjugated her own ambitions to her family's needs' meaning she pushed her own wants down and made them serve something else意思是她把自己的渴望壓下去，讓它服務於別的事 Here the force is inward, not military這裡的力量是內在的，不是軍事上的 but the same picture holds但畫面是一樣的 something is being held down under something stronger某個東西被壓在更強的東西底下

    Common patterns: 'subjugate a people', 'subjugate X to Y'. The forms are subjugate, subjugates, subjugated, subjugating, and the noun is 'subjugation'.

    Common patterns常見的搭配是 'subjugate a people', 'subjugate X to Y''subjugate a people'、'subjugate X to Y' The forms are subjugate, subjugates, subjugated, subjugating詞形變化有subjugate、subjugates、subjugated、subjugating and the noun is 'subjugation'名詞是'subjugation'

    Compare 'conquer' (win the fight) — subjugate goes further, because it includes what happens after the fight: the lasting control.

    Compare 'conquer' (win the fight)對照'conquer'（贏得戰鬥） subjugate goes furthersubjugate的意思更進一步 because it includes what happens after the fight因為它還包含了戰鬥之後發生的事 the lasting control也就是持續的控制

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成sub- ('under') + Latin 'iugum' ('yoke' — the wooden bar laid across two oxen's necks so a farmer can steer them). So the original picture is 'to bring under the yoke': the defeated people are harnessed like farm animals and made to pull where you say.

同家族的字

  • yokethe very same word, arrived in English by a different road — Latin 'iugum' and English 'yoke' come from one ancient root
  • junctionsame root meaning 'join' — a place where roads are joined
  • joinfrom Latin 'iungere', to join — the same family as 'iugum'
  • subjugationthe noun made from this verb

原始詞典資料6 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。

subjugateadj詞源 1/ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/

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    Forced into submission; subjugated.

    • For al their hye mynde they be now ſubiugate: […]
    • After the Romans, the Saxons brought it [Lancashire] vnder their protection, and held it for a part of their Northumbrian Kingdome, till it vvas firſt made ſubiugate to the Inuaſion of the Danes, and then conquered by the victorious Normans, vvhoſe poſterities from thence are branched further into England.

subjugatenoun詞源 1/ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/

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    rareA person forced into submission; a subject.

    • [T]he home-loving Phillipino succumbed—the independent agent, under the influence of the "final cry," became the subjugate.

subjugateverb詞源 2/ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡeɪt/

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    To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).

    • O fav'rite Virgin, that haſt vvarm'd the Breaſt, / VVhoſe ſov'reign Dictates ſubjugate the Eaſt!
    • From infancy through childhood's giddy maze, / Frovvard at ſchool, and fretful in his plays, / The puny tyrant burns to ſubjugate / The free republic of the vvhip-gig ſtate.
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    To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate.

    • [H]e wil needes haue ſubiects, before he can ſubiugate his affections, and couets the office of a commander, before he hath learned to ſtoupe to the admonitions of his elders, […]
    • [H]is ſoul hath ſubjugated Martius ſoul: […]
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    To tame (an animal); to domesticate.

    • Though of all other viſible Creatures Man ſeems the leaſt provided vvith natural offenſive Organs, yet by the advantage of his intellectual Faculty and that admirable Organum organorum his Hand, he is infinitely advantaged vvith artificial helps to defend himſelf, and ſubjugate the moſt contumacious and furious Brute: […]
    • [T]hou subjugatest or destroyest the beasts that would annoy thee, and convertest to thy use all their spoils, as well as all vegetable productions.
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    obsoleterareTo put (one's neck or shoulders) under a metaphorical yoke.

    • Let ſuch Princes I ſay adhere to the Pope, & ſubiugate their neckes to his trampling, […]

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。