0 a situation in which people are governed in an unfair and cruel way and prevented from having opportunities and freedom -- 压迫;压制;欺压
1 a feeling of being very uncomfortable and worried -- 烦闷;压抑;郁闷
Several people had experienced the same feeling of oppression when they slept in that room. 几个曾在那间屋子里睡过觉的人都感到了同样的压抑。
The enemy's oppressions, his depredations, his cruelties and his crimes have been done on other soil than ours.
Two wrongs never make a right but create new oppressions and divisions in society.
Their revolt was basically against the oppressions of the feudal controls on the labour market.
There—in the camps of capitalism—national enmity and inequality, colonial slavery and chauvinism, national oppressions and pograms, imperialistic brutalities and wars.
Minor oppressions are inclined to be overlooked.
If a law to secure collective title were passed and widely applied, she contended, it would constitute an act of oppression.
He has known so much oppression that he either accepts the status quo without question or else he breaks forth in revolutionary activities.
Focusing on social conflict with men rather than intrapsychic contradictions in women, they deal with social oppression, as it were, rather than psychic repression.