Oppress

(verb.) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; 'The government oppresses political activists'.

艾伦整理

• It can never be the interest of the unproductive class to oppress the other two classes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• My mother desires her very best compliments and regards, and a thousand thanks, and says you really quite oppress her. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The sovereign himself can never have either interest or inclination to pervert the order of justice, or to oppress the great body of the people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I don't like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Some fearful hours went over me: indescribably was I torn, racked and oppressed in mind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• A gloomy Fate had oppressed her there. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• She was coughing most dreadfully, and her breath was still more oppressed than my own. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• When Mr. Hale came in, Margaret went out, oppressed with gloom, and seeing no promise of brightness on any side of the horizon. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It oppressed his mind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• So she went on, the air around her pulsating silently, and oppressing the earth with lassitude. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It neither favours the great, nor oppresses the smaller dealer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It oppresses me yet, to think of it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But he is generally melancholy and despairing; and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Give me your confidence, Jane, he said: relieve your mind of any weight that oppresses it, by imparting it to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

整理:瓦莱丽