- 1征服並統治、使屈服
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. 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. 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. Common patterns: 'subjugate a people', 'subjugate X to Y'. The forms are subjugate, subjugates, subjugated, subjugating, and the noun is 'subjugation'. Compare 'conquer' (win the fight) — subjugate goes further, because it includes what happens after the fight: the lasting control.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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/
- 1
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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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: […]
- 3
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.
- 4
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, […]
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