单词	oppress
释义	oppressop‧press /əˈpres/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINoppress Origin: 1300-1400 French oppresser, from Latin oppressus, past participle of opprimere ‘to press against’ Verb Table VERB TABLE oppress Simple Form Present I, you, we, they oppress he, she, it oppresses Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they oppressed Present perfect I, you, we, they have oppressed he, she, it has oppressed Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had oppressed Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will oppress Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have oppressed Continuous Form Present I am oppressing he, she, it is oppressing you, we, they are oppressing Past I, he, she, it was oppressing you, we, they were oppressing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been oppressing he, she, it has been oppressing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been oppressing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be oppressing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been oppressing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES "My people were oppressed by your people for three hundred years," Cavita commented. Marxists have studied the role of the family in oppressing women. Since colonial times, black people in South Africa have been oppressed by the white minority. The loneliness of her little apartment oppressed her. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS In fact culture can be used as another guise under which one group can hide to oppress the other. Machines serve us: technology serves us; our habits oppress us, and enslave us. The weight of inexpressible or pointless words oppressed him. They oppress, depress and divide the forces of possible resistance, and turn ordinary people against them. They no longer supply pretexts for local bullies to oppress, nor reason for western governments to turn a blind eye. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto completely control the people in a country► oppress to use force to control large groups of people - use this especially about governments and people in authority: · Since colonial times, black people in South Africa have been oppressed by the white minority.· Marxists have studied the role of the family in oppressing women. ► oppressive oppressive laws or governments control people so tightly that they have very little freedom left: · The country is in the grip of an extremely oppressive regime.· New, oppressive laws were brought in to restrict the freedom of the press. ► keep somebody down to control people by not allowing them to use their natural abilities, intelligence, or energy to improve their situation: be kept down: · The population is kept down by poverty and fear of the secret police.keep somebody down: · In Marlowe's opinion, religion was invented in order to keep people down. ► repress to control people: · It's a cruel and vicious regime that represses all opposition.· For years the inhabitants of these islands have been repressed by the colonizers. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► woman · Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really doesn't care how she oppresses us as Black women.· He voted to increase fares on the wildly inefficient SunTran bus system, thus further oppressing working men and women. VERB► feel · I have had to minister to several who have felt oppressed by their connection with freemasonry.· Now she could not recapture the understanding; she felt oppressed. 1to treat a group of people unfairly or cruelly, and prevent them from having the same rights that other people in society have:  native tribes oppressed by the authorities2to make someone feel unhappy, worried, or uncomfortable:  The gloom in the chapel oppressed her.GRAMMAR Oppress is often used in the passive.
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