English Dictionary

oppression

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈpɹɛʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. / The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed. / A feeling of being oppressed.

日本語の意味

権力や権威を重く、不当または残酷な方法で行使すること。 / 抑圧、圧政、暴政の状態または行為。 / 圧迫感や息苦しさ、精神的な重圧を感じる状態。

The community organized to resist the oppression that had silenced their voices for decades.

地域社会は、何十年もの間彼らの声を封じてきた抑圧に抵抗するために結束した。

意味（1）

The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

意味（2）

The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.

Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.

意味（3）

A feeling of being oppressed.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

oppressions （ plural ）