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repression

/ri-presh-uhn/US // rɪˈprɛʃ ən //

压制,压抑,压迫,镇压

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
    • : Psychoanalysis. the rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.

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Examples

  • Researchers say the movement began coalescing online in 2019 as people — mostly young men — angry with what they perceived to be increasing government repression, found each other on Facebook groups and in private chats.

  • American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture at work, or the repression of traditional faith, culture and values in the public square.

  • Autocratic regimes are far more likely to use these instruments for repression, but democracies sometimes use them to curb civil rights too.

  • He has relied on a mixture of repression and elite loyalty, but also, to an extent, popular support.

  • Now, the fear is palpable—citizens are comparing the air of repression to the cultural revolution, and professors are being fired from universities for advocating democracy.

  • Hand to God Sexual repression has been around for centuries, courtesy of all our favorite religions.

  • Depressing is really what Cuba has become—repression, bureaucracy, and crippling poverty.

  • One road leads to freedom, sharing, and equality; the other to endless spying, a hierarchical structure, and repression.

  • Dovlatov hated Soviet oppression and battled repression subtly, by not condescending to notice it, and keeping things light.

  • If the U.S. does nothing, the Arab world will continue its slide into sectarian bigotry, political repression, and madness.

  • Not that those stolid agriculturists required much repression.

  • Cavour's double play and the cruel repression of the Genoese plot left him bitterer than ever against the monarchy and its men.

  • As we follow the sessions of the Assembly we find acts for the repression of litigation renewed three times in five years.

  • But the war brought worse than an arrest of progress; it brought repression of freedom and a tremendous load of debt.

  • Calavius was furious and paused, as if to give orders for harsher repression.