tyranny

1 The title of the book comes from a quote by John Locke — “Wherever law ends, tyranny begins” — and Weissmann’s suggested solutions reflect his own faith in the perfectibility of institutions.

2 The refugees were fleeing tyranny.

3 You need not succumb to the tyranny of your book club or the predictability of the bestseller list.

4 But I did not consider myself otherwise engaged at all, and here he was, offering me temporary respite from the tyranny of the house.

5 "The Imitation Game" rails against tyranny and oppression too.

6 She reminds us that the young can force social change and urges them to act when they see tyranny taking hold.

7 He vowed to run away with the beautiful farmer's daughter and return on his eighteenth birthday to free his people from the tyranny of the queen.

8 He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father’s moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love.

9 “Maybe,” Nathan says, quoting a judge called in to settle the matter, “this was your father’s plan, to end the tyranny of the single ring.”

10 This closing of the port of Boston was indeed tyranny; this was oppression; this was the last straw upon the back of many a moderate man.

11 First, he expounded on saving the music business from extinction — or, at least, the tyranny of hip-hop.

12 Various social evils, such as corruption, crime and tyranny, are far from being eradicated.

各种社会弊病, 如腐败, 犯罪和暴政, 还远远没有根除.

13 These fellows, all veterans, are apocalypse-minded, bristling at a “tyranny” that they believe will soon be coming to confiscate their many, many guns.

14 The collective effect is to be freed from the tyranny of the 21st century franchise; box office expectations are not particularly high and there’s little chance we’ll ever see a second “BFG.”

15 How can an artist so original, so thrillingly indifferent to convention and the tyranny of good taste — let alone one so prescient — remain untranslated and unread?

16 Those states lie under a tyranny.

那些国家处于专制统治之下。

17 In the past the Middle had made revolutions under the banner of equality, and then had established a fresh tyranny as soon as the old one was overthrown.

18 SD: There has been a tyranny over the last 100 years, where the idea of any disposal is seen to be heretical.

19 The moon’s majestic, silent mockery sets a revolution in motion and, rather than wishing the king good night, it helps his subjects bid tyranny goodbye.

20 By increments, the tyranny of the thin is seeing cultural pushback.

1 高压

high-pressure coercive hyperbaric high-tension high-handed HT jackboot dominate

2 专制国家

despotism autarchy leviathan

3 专制政治

despotism czarism absolutism autarchy Caesarism autocracy caesarism

4 控制

manipulative control command restriction grip determination clutch governance grasp manipulation curb mastery restraint dominion domination rein containment keep school run condition rule contain determine direct master cure restrict dominate regulate govern manipulate seize dictate tame overtake restrain hijack modulate stifle repress call the tune hold back keep to get a grip take possession keep down hold sway

5 残暴

cruel atrocious barbarous cruelty atrocity ferocity barbarity vicious outrageous inhumane tyrannical devilish ghoulish bestial thuggish sanguinary tyrannous ruffianly Neronian ogrish dispiteous brutally mercilessly atrociously inhumanly brutishly imbrutement enormity barbarism brutalize brutify felon monstrous truculent violence devilry rude fell ferocious ruffian savagery truculence acharnement

6 专政

dictatorial dictatorship

7 左右

odd thereabouts or or so

8 高压政治

coercion

9 暴政

tyrannous misrule despotism jackboot

10 专制

absolute dictatorship despotism

11 严厉

boot-faced hard round smart tough exact raw tight severe dear strict stiff rugged heated rigorous rigid cruel stern strait tart grim stringent uncompromising exacting brazen scathing astringent draconian austere dour diabolic uncharitable unsparing stour gloves-off heavy hardly harsh keenly smartly roundly severity rigor austerity rigidity acrimony exactitude stringency iron sharp rough bitter abusive stark drastic pungent grueling puritanical slashing flinty astringency

12 暴虐

hard outrageous oppressive tyrannical slavish roughshod tyrannous heavy atrocity barbarism barbarity heavy-handed outrage despotic oppressively arbitrary violence barbarous inhumanity violent despot tyrannic neronian heavily

13 苛刻

meat-ax hard critical severe brutal stern demanding exacting barbarous stour gloves-off heavy hardly severity hardness shaft rigour toughen

14 支配

ruling ascendant grip dictation control rule manage dominate govern reign seize be in the ascendant take possession

15 暴行

violence outrage atrocity brutality ferocity barbarity despite cruelty nasty excess barbarism

16 苛政

misrule

17 严酷

crucial eager brutal rugged rigorous grim arduous draconian tyrannous robustious heavy wrath rigor asperity severe rude poignant trying ill shrewd astringent truculent unsparing acerb hardhanded astringency inclemency

18 压力

set head force pressure push stress screw strain tension squeeze bearing pow arm-twisting

19 专横

arbitrary masterful overbearing tyrannical heavy-handed autocratic presumptuous despotic magisterial imperious slavish domineering peremptory Neronian insolence jackboot with a high hand bossy dictatorial kick-ass forward imperative impudent lordly high-handed overbear undemocratic peremptorily overpowering despot presuming tyrannous arbitrarily presumption arbitrariness

20 专制统治

tsarist despotism autarchy

21 专制政府

despotism autocracy