oppressor

/əˈpresə(r)/ (bre, ipa) · /əˈpresər/ (ame, ipa) · /-sə(r)/ (ame, mw)

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

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).