oppressed 的 2 个定义
- burdened with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subjected to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: He's spent over three years documenting the lives of the poor, exploited, and oppressed peoples of Latin America.
- weighed down by thoughts or feelings that lie heavily on the mind or spirit: The fix for a hurt heart, broken spirit, or oppressed mind is not always easy, but there is a path to recovery.
- Usually the oppressed . oppressed people collectively: We cannot proclaim individual liberty and at the same time show no solidarity with the oppressed.
oppressed 近义词
downtrodden
更多oppressed例句
- It could also, of course, be a question asked of any dominant culture by any oppressed, silenced or subjugated culture.
- It is no coincidence therefore that the burden of stigma fell above all on the marginalized and the oppressed.
- “There are so many oppressed communities, so many things going on that are just bigger than a ball going in the rim,” he asserted.
- He was using Twitter to politically oppress people, if you think about the context of use and the months of him claiming the election had been stolen from him.
- In some cases, oppressed journalists find themselves at heightened risk of falling fatally ill.
- She has championed women in countries where they are oppressed through Vital Voices.
- So much of the fear the media tries to stoke in me is fear of the oppressed underdog lashing out.
- And if you look at history, women are an oppressed category of people.
- It is an astounding thing to behold —everyday Christians putting their lives on the line for an oppressed people.
- On the left, they are hemmed in by the pact of solidarity among self-identified oppressed groups.
- Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
- They all seemed as if oppressed by some disappointment, but their looks changed instantly on the entrance of the visitor.
- A commonwealth, oppressed and pillaged by such men as Opimius and Verres, was free, because it had no king.
- Oppressed and degraded humanity was about to take vengeance for its ages of accumulated wrongs.
- To remove a tyrant is an act of liberation, the giving of life and opportunity to an oppressed people.