| 词汇 | repression |
| 释义 | repressionWord family adjectiverepressedrepressiblerepressivenounrepresserrepressionrepressivenessrepressoradverbrepressiblyrepressivelyverbrepress Psychology, psychiatry re·pres·sion /rɪˈpreʃən/ ●○○ noun [countableC, uncountableU] 1 MPCONTROLwhen someone does not allow themselves to express feelings or desires which they are ashamed of, especially sexual ones – used when you think someone should express these feelings 〔对性爱或性欲等羞于表达的感情或欲望的〕抑制，克制，压抑 sexual repression 性压抑 repression of the repression of desire 欲望的克制 2 CONTROLcruel and severe control of a large group of people 镇压 → suppression, oppression repression of brutal repression of members of the Communist party 对共产党员的残酷镇压 Examples from the Corpus repression• And even among the scrupulously neutral, there were those who spoke against the inequality and repression which inspired the fighting.• In spite of consistent repression, they produced five children.• Are we that nostalgic for repression?• The prison system became, by default, a major enforcer of repression.• She had not even attracted any positive repression, nor been significant enough to affect her husband's career.• During Stalin's repressions, countless people were sent to labor camps and starved to death.• Religious ideas about sin made sexual repression commonplace.• Indeed the repression of anger can be positively harmful.• But tensions continued as victims of the repression took revenge against the cadres who had persecuted them. |
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