tyranny

n. 暴政；专横；严酷；残暴的行为（需用复数）

n.

暴虐；专横；暴行；

变形

复数：tyrannies

双语释义

[P]暴虐；残暴；专横 the use of cruel or unjust power to rule a person or country

[U]暴政；苛政 government by a cruel ruler with complete power

英英释义

tyranny[ 'tirəni ]

n.

a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

同义词：dictatorshipabsolutismauthoritarianismCaesarismdespotismmonocracyone-man ruleshogunateStalinismtotalitarianism

dominance through threat of punishment and violence

同义词：absolutismdespotism

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

They will fight tyranny to the death.
他们誓死反对暴政。

Revolution is a frequent outgrowth of tyranny.
革命是暴政促成的常有结果。

Tyranny is fiercer than a tiger.
苛政猛于虎。

The world suffers most from the disinterested tyranny of its well wisher.
世界在漠然的苛政中为善者承受极大的痛楚。

Those states lie under a tyranny.
那些国家处于专制统治之下。

Freedom from tyranny is a principle we should always defend.
从专制中获得自由是一个我们应该永远维护的原则。

权威例句

tyranny (n.)

late 14c., "cruel or unjust use of power; the government of a tyrant," from Old French tyranie (13c.), from Late Latin tyrannia "tyranny," from Greek tyrannia "rule of a tyrant, absolute power," from tyrannos "master" (see tyrant).

1. Freedom from tyranny is a principle we should always defend.

从专制中获得自由是一个我们应该永远维护的原则。

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2. If freedom is right and tyranny wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

接着写到“如果自由是正确的，专制是错误的，那么为什么那些信仰自由的人把它看成是一卷粗香肠并且不时的讨价还价般的切一片？”

3. One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

为了避免饿死和不进监狱，一个人应当尊重公众意见，但是除了这些目的之外如果还这么做，那就是对不必要专制的自愿遵从。

4. This is the tyranny of the dominant signature, caused by the limitation of expressing the element with only one name.

这就是主导签名的专制，由只使用一个名称来表示元素的限制所导致的。

5. Knowledge like this gives one great strength in time of oppression or tyranny.

这样的认识在压迫和暴政时期给人巨大的力量。

6. For an epic battle is now unfolding in the Middle East, between tyranny and freedom.

现在在中东，在暴政与自由之间，一场史诗般的战斗已经展开。

7. What they have been recently discussing is the tyranny in our future, 357 years from now, because that affects everybody.

他们在最近的过去一直在讨论的是我们未来的暴政，从现在起357年，因为这影响到每个人。

8. First, the mission of the United Nations requires liberating people from tyranny and violence.

首先，联合国的使命要求把人们从暴政和暴力下解放出来。

9. So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

因此，寻求和支持民主运动和民主制度在各个国家和各种文化下的发展成为美国的政策，其最终目标是结束我们这个世界上的暴政。

10. I have argued that the next step on the agenda of tyranny is to license the Internet so only certain users can use it.

我一直认为暴政的下一个议程是给互联网发许可证，以便只有特定的用户可以使用它。

11. But in the longer run, material development will suffer if authoritarian habits turn into tyranny.

但如果独裁的习惯转向暴政，物质发展在长期也将受到损害。

12. The sacrifices of these brave troops have rescued millions from lives of tyranny and sorrow, and made America more secure.

牺牲这些勇敢的部队已经救出数百万人的生命的专制和悲伤,使美国更安全.

13. Britain might not make steel anymore, or cars, or pop music worth listening to, but, boy, are we world-beaters when it comes to tyranny.

英国可能不再制造钢铁、生产汽车、创作值得一听的流行音乐，但提到专制，男孩子就是我们世界的破坏者。

14. It is the basis of tyranny in the great age of ideologies through which we are still passing.

那便是意识形态时期,暴政的基础,一直到现在我们都还在克服之中。

15. The ex-president is said to have confessed to a group of Palestinian officials that God told him to "fight those terrorists in Afghanistan . . . and end the tyranny in Iraq".

据说这位前总统曾告诉一些巴勒斯坦的官员说是上帝告诉他让他“去和阿富汗的恐怖分子作斗争，结束伊拉克的暴政。”

16. The great objective of ending tyranny is the concentrated work of generations.

结束暴政的伟大目标是需要几代人全力以赴的工作。

17. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given up, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.

我们的政策就是用我们全部能力，用上帝所给予我们的全部力量，同一个在人类黑暗悲惨的罪恶史上所从未有过的穷凶极恶的暴政进行战争。

18. He was accompanied also by the prayers and blessings of generous men and women in all lands where the lamp of freedom shall never be dimmed by tyranny.

他永远伴随着很多男男女女的祈祷与祝福，这些人们来自五湖四海，他们所在的地方，自由之灯永远不会被暴政所熄灭。

19. Another is between democracy per se and the protection of individual rights and liberties in the face of what might otherwise be a tyranny of the majority.

另一个就是民主自身的问题，如何在出现多数人暴政的可能性下保护个人的权利与自由。

20. The people of Burma live in the darkness of tyranny - but the light of freedom shines in their hearts.

缅甸人民生活在暴政的黑暗统治下，但自由之光却在他们心中闪烁。

21. This tension needs to be seen in most instances as healthy, because it creates a balance that prevents liberty from degenerating into anarchy, and restraint from growing into tyranny.

应该认为，自由与责任之间的较量在大多数情况下是健康的，因为这带来一种平衡，防止从自由退化到无政府，避免由制约生成专制。

22. For with the suppression of our exploiters and an end to the tyranny of profit, human history can truly begin.

伴随着那些剥削者的镇压和资本暴政的终结，人类的历史将会真正地开始。

23. But so long as there is injustice, tyranny, oppression and inequality, there will always be a place for the beloved outlaw hero, even if he was a Nurdler.

但只要世上还有不公正、暴政、压迫和不公平，那我们亲爱的侠士，就永远有一席之地，即使他是一位讷德帮人。

24. But so long as there is injustice, tyranny, oppression and inequality, there will always be a place for the beloved outlaw hero, even if he was a Nurdler.

但只要世上还有不公正、暴政、压迫和不公平，那我们亲爱的侠士，就永远有一席之地，即使他是一位讷德帮人。