Oppressive

(adj.) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; 'the oppressive government'; 'oppressive laws'; 'a tyrannical parent'; 'tyrannous disregard of human rights' .

(adj.) weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; 'the atmosphere was oppressive'; 'oppressive sorrows' .

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• The affected anxiety of the lawgiver, lest they should employ an improper person, is evidently as impertinent as it is oppressive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But it is all blank, blank as the darkness above and below, while he goes up the great staircase again, blank as the oppressive silence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• IV The heat had been painfully oppressive all day, and it was now a close and sultry night. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am afraid you found the heat very oppressive to-night. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The atmosphere of the place was heavy and mouldy, being rendered additionally oppressive by the closing of the door which led into the church. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A man with a very odd manner indeed, and with a lurking look that was quite oppressive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular and oppressive as the services. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• No oppressive aristocracy has ever prevailed in the colonies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When she got there, she found Bessy lying on the settle, moved close to the fire, though the day was sultry and oppressive. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• In a more advanced state, they might be really oppressive and insupportable. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The second day was sultry and oppressive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• In order to prevent exportation, the whole inland commerce of wool is laid under very burdensome and oppressive restrictions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She stood so near to one, pressing herself near upon one, in a way that was most embarrassing and oppressive. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• That was before he came to me, but the recollection of it is oppressive to him even now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The air is mild and delicious, and the heat no longer oppressive, as it was when you passed through the garden. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• When the air is near the saturation point, the weather is oppressive and is said to be very humid. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In this state of things, therefore, this company was, in every respect, a strict and oppressive monopoly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But though such companies may not, in the present times, be very oppressive, they are certainly altogether useless. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Its business is to provide opportunities, not to announce ultimate values; to remove oppressive evil and to invent new resources for enjoyment. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the gay light of the drawing-room she was uncanny and oppressive. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• That tax would be cruel and oppressive, which aggravated their loss, by taking from them any part of his succession. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To my gasping senses she made the glimmering gloom, the narrow limitsthe oppressive heat of the dormitory, intolerable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The evil of the day is sometimes oppressive--too oppressive--and I long to escape it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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