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单词 tyrant
释义
tyrant
(taɪərənt )
Word forms: tyrants
countable noun
You can use tyrant to refer to someone who treats the people they have authority over in a cruel and unfair way.
Since 1804 the country has mostly been ruled by tyrants.
...households where the father was a tyrant.
Synonyms: dictator, bully, authoritarian, Big Brother  
Quotations:
The hand of vengeance found the bed
To which the purple tyrant fled;
The iron hand crushed the tyrant's head,
And became a tyrant in his stead
William BlakeThe Grey Monk
Tyrants seldom want pretextsEdmund Burkeletter to a Member of the National Assembly
Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men would be tyrants if they could
Daniel DefoeThe History of the Kentish Petition
Translations:
Chinese: 暴君
Japanese: 暴君
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