Oppression

(noun.) the act of subjugating by cruelty; 'the tyrant's oppression of the people'.

(noun.) a feeling of being oppressed.

(noun.) the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: 'after years of oppression they finally revolted'.

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• When I could cry no more, I began to think; and then the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It was an intolerable oppression to her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The oppression of Celia, Tantripp, and Sir James was shaken off, and she walked straight to the library. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She went to the window, and threw it open, to dispel the oppression which hung around her. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The common rule requires submission; and it is only in cases of grievous tyranny and oppression, that the exception can take place. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Men have oftener suffered from, the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• My late fever seemed to have carried away all the oppression on my chest, except what was the mere effect of debility. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The course of its prosperity returned as soon as it was relieved from that oppression. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Darwin was moved by intense indignation at the slavery on the east coast and the cruel oppression of the laborer on the west coast. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In the evening, Lord Worcester found me seriously ill, with an oppression on my chest, to which I am become rather subject. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• When he was gone, Dorothea's tears gushed forth, and relieved her stifling oppression. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I used to feel it like a baleful air or sigh, penetrate deep, and make motion pause at my heart, or proceed only under unspeakable oppression. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Roman science was stillborn, into a suffocating atmosphere of vile wealth and military oppression. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But all the oppressions evidently work for our good. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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