| 释义 |
repressedre‧pressed /rɪˈprest/ adjective   - I had a lot of repressed anger toward my family that I didn't realize till my father died.
- The actress plays a repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
- The Victorian era is characterized by its strict conventions and repressed emotion.
- An initial period of identification is important to a repressed group that has never had adequate self-images.
- Arthur Penn's movie is a study of teenage trauma and repressed sexuality masquerading as a Western.
- As if some one like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse, demure and repressed!
- It is a form of reenactment of repressed memories, a kind of photo-theatre, or psychic realism.
- It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model.
- She's probably lived such a repressed life she goes berserk when she comes out to the West Indies.
- The repressed is, says Freud, the prototype of the unconscious.
- The vicious circle of repressed feeling is finally broken.
words for describing feelings, attitudes etc that are hidden► hidden · He's always joking around to make sure his true feelings stay hidden.· Even after years of psychiatric treatment, she was full of hidden anger.hidden talents (=abilities that you did not know someone had) · You can dance and sing! I never realized you had so many hidden talents.hidden meaning · The lyrics of most of his songs have some hidden meaning. ► disguised feelings or attitudes that are disguised are kept hidden, but usually not very well: · "OK, I'll do it," she said with barely disguised hostility.thinly disguised (=hardly disguised at all): · The speech was seen by many as a thinly disguised attack on the President. ► suppressed strong feelings, such as anger, fear, or happiness, that are suppressed are ones that you do not allow yourself to feel or show: · He is full of suppressed anger and needs to find some way of releasing it.· The intensity of the trial caused her long-suppressed emotions to come out in the open. ► repressed feelings that are repressed are ones that you deliberately stop yourself from feeling, or have been taught not to feel from when you were a child, especially feelings that you are ashamed of: · The Victorian era is characterized by its strict conventions and repressed emotion.· I had a lot of repressed anger toward my family that I didn't realize till my father died. ► veiled a veiled threat, warning etc is one that you do not make directly, but deliberately do not hide well, so that the person you are dealing with understands what your real intention is: · His attempt to get us to help him is just a veiled form of blackmail.· Her comments were nothing more than a veiled criticism of my work.thinly veiled (=only slightly hidden): · The opposition leader has made thinly veiled threats of violence. 1having feelings or desires that you do not allow yourself to express or think about, especially sexual feelings SYN frustrated:  a repressed middle-aged woman2repressed feelings or desires are ones which you do not allow yourself to express or think about: repressed anger |