- 1征服、奴役、壓制（強力使人屈服的過程或狀態）
Subjugation is the act of defeating a group of people and forcing them to live under your control — or the condition of living that way. It is the noun that goes with the verb 'subjugate', and like it, the word is formal and heavy, at home in history, , and writing about colonies, empires, and slavery. Because it is a noun, it lets a writer name the whole long process as one thing: 'the subjugation of the native peoples took three centuries'. You will most often see it as 'the subjugation of X', and sometimes 'under subjugation'. As with the verb, it carries judgement — the writer using it is nearly always condemning what happened. It can also be used for pushing something down inside yourself or in a system: 'the subjugation of personal desire to duty', 'the subjugation of science to '. Compare 'subjection', which is quieter and can simply describe a state of being ruled; 'subjugation' keeps the smell of force and conquest.
組成subjugate + -ion, where '-ion' names the action as a thing. Inside 'subjugate' is Latin 'sub' ('under') + 'iugum' ('yoke'), the bar put across oxen's necks — so the buried picture is 'the putting of people under the yoke'.
原始詞典資料2 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。
subjugationnoun/ˌsʌbd͡ʒʊˈɡeɪʃən/
- 1
The act of subjugating.
- 2
The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
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