英 [əˈpresɪv] 美 [əˈpresɪv]
adj. （社会、法律、习俗等）压迫的，暴虐的，不公的 ；（天气、空气等）闷热的，难以忍受的；使人苦恼的，令人焦虑的
比较级more oppressive
最高级most oppressive
oppressive /əˈprɛsɪv/ TEM4
形容词 If you describe a society, its laws, or customs as oppressive, you think they treat people cruelly and unfairly. 压迫的
The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace.
新法律将跟被它所取代的那些法律一样不公正。
形容词 If you describe the weather or the atmosphere in a room as oppressive, you mean that it is unpleasantly hot and damp. 湿热的
The oppressive afternoon heat had tired him out.
湿热的午后暑气使他筋疲力尽。
形容词 An oppressive situation makes you feel depressed and uncomfortable. 令人感到压抑的
...the oppressive sadness that weighed upon him like a physical pain.
…像肉体疼痛一样沉重地压着他、令他抑郁的悲伤。
weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
the atmosphere was oppressive ; oppressive sorrows
marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
the oppressive government ; oppressive laws
同义词： tyrannical / tyrannous
... Note指示 Oppressive压抑 Pitiful有同情心的 ...
... Fair展览会 be meant to do打算做 Oppressive压制性的 Day4选择疑问句的提问类型 ...
... impressive：感人的；给人深刻印象的 oppressive：压迫的；压制的 fern：蕨叶 ...
... yucky令人极度厌恶的 oppressive残酷的，不公正的 ugly丑陋的 ...
oppressively 压迫地；沉重地
oppression 压抑；镇压；压迫手段；沉闷；苦恼
oppressor 压制者，压迫者
oppress 压迫，压抑；使……烦恼；使……感到沉重
压迫的；沉重的；压制性的；难以忍受的
An excess of house plants in a small apartment can be oppressive.
在一套狭小公寓里放过多的室内植物会给人压抑感。
Perhaps in the face of impersonal and intimidating globalization, a young person's family feels more like a friendly haven than an oppressive trap.
或许，面临缺乏人情味且令人生畏的全球化冲击时，家庭对于年轻人而言，或许更像是友好的避风港，而非压抑的牢笼。
The oppressive afternoon heat had tired him out.
湿热的午后暑气使他筋疲力尽。
Have you lifted the oppressive sanctions? Have you stopped insulting us and making accusations against our great nation and its leaders?
VOA : standard.2009.03.21
So the Pax Romana may have sounded great, if you were an elite, but if you were not in the elite, it may have seemed more oppressive than anything.
所以罗马和平对精英阶层听着很美好，但如果你不是精英阶层，就会觉得更像是压迫。
新约课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
He's the friend of women everywhere, at least for a few of his female readers in the eighteenth century, and for many he's the very embodiment of oppressive patriarchy.
他到处都有女人缘，至少在18世纪他有不少女性读者，但对很多人来说他是压抑的男权主义的象征。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Karen Ebel's father emigrated to the U.S.in 1937 from Germany to flee the increasingly oppressive Nazi state.
VOA : standard.2010.06.22
Masekela became a working musician, but chafed against the oppressive laws and brutal enforcement.
But if they comply, they become, in the eyes of dissidents, collaborators with an oppressive regime.
And I know just how restrictive, indeed oppressive at times, the terms of them can be.
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