oppressive
adj. 沉重的; 壓迫的; 壓抑的; 沉悶
If you describe a society, its laws, or customs as oppressive, you think they treat people cruelly and unfairly.
The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace.
新法律只會與原來的法律一樣苛嚴。
...refugees from the oppressive regime.
逃離暴政的難民
If you describe the weather or the atmosphere in a room as oppressive, you mean that it is unpleasantly hot and damp.
The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out...
下午悶熱的天氣使他疲憊不堪。
The little room was windowless and oppressive.
這個小房間沒有窗戶,使人感到悶熱難耐。
An oppressive situation makes you feel depressed and uncomfortable.
...the oppressive sadness that weighed upon him like a physical pain.
如肉體上的疼痛一樣壓在他心頭的令人抑鬱的悲傷
1. weighing heavily on the senses or spirit;
2. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior;
She could feel alone with theand the sky, away from the oppressive masquerade of ages.
她要獨立與天地為伍, 離開那令人窒息的世紀的假面舞會.
War was grueling and oppressive and frustrating and uncomfortable, but one had friends.
戰爭雖然嚴酷,暴虐, 富有破壞性,給人帶來災難,但它卻使人從中得到知心朋友.
He is sufferring at the same time oppressive, is one side even virtuous?
他一面受著壓迫, 一面還要講道德?
The heat in the tropics can be oppressive.
熱帶氣候熱得難受.
Another oppressive night descended.
悶熱的夜又來臨了.
adj. 悶悶不樂的,苦悶的
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