oppressor

IPA/əˈpresə(r)/
KK[əprˈɛsɚ]IPA/əˈpresər/

oppressor — 名詞

  • oppressorsingular
  • oppressorsplural

1. a person, government, or group with power who rules over others harshly and deni

1.名詞C1
釋義

壓迫者；暴君

以權力殘酷統治並剝奪他人自由的人或政權

a person, government, or group with power who rules over others harshly and denies them basic rights or freedoms — for example, a dictator who jails critics, or a colonial ruler who blocks local people from owning land.

例句

Soraya wrote a long essay about how her grandmother had survived under a brutal oppressor.

Soraya 寫了一篇長文，描述她的祖母如何在殘暴的壓迫者統治下倖存下來。

common phrase: live/survive under an oppressor

The villagers gathered in the church to plan a peaceful protest against their oppressor.

村民們聚集在教堂裡，籌劃一場針對壓迫者的和平抗議。

collocation: protest/stand against an oppressor

常見搭配
  • brutal oppressor
  • foreign oppressor
  • colonial oppressor
  • stand against an oppressor
  • rise up against the oppressor
同義詞
  • tyrant

    stresses absolute and often cruel rule by one ruler

  • despot

    formal; a ruler who holds total power, usually unjustly

  • persecutor

    emphasises ongoing harassment of a specific group, often for beliefs

  • autocrat

    neutral-to-negative; a single ruler with absolute power, may or may not be cruel

反義詞
  • liberator

    the one who frees people from an oppressor

  • protector

    shields a group rather than harming it

文法句型

the oppressor of [group]

under an oppressor

用法筆記

Subject is usually a person or group holding political, military, or economic power; rarely used for personal-relationship cruelty (use 'bully' or 'abuser' instead). Frequently paired with the victim group via 'of' or 'against'.

常見錯誤

My older brother is an oppressor when we play games.
My older brother bullies me when we play games.
'oppressor' is for political or institutional power, not sibling rivalry.
She felt oppressor in the small room.
She felt oppressed in the small room.
'oppressor' is the person doing it; the feeling is 'oppressed' (adjective).

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常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • brutal oppressor
  • foreign oppressor
  • colonial oppressor
  • former oppressor

常用片語

  • stand against the oppressor
  • rise up against the oppressor
  • overthrow the oppressor
  • free [people] from their oppressors

介系詞搭配

  • under (the/an) oppressor
  • against (the/an) oppressor
  • from oppressors