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tyranny
['tɪr.ən.i] noun uncountable
■government by a ruler or small group of people who have unlimited power over the people in their country or state and use it unfairly and cruelly 暴政，专制统治•This, the president promised us, was a war against tyranny.总统向我们承诺，这是一场反对暴政的战争。 ■when a situation or person controls how you are able to live, in an unfair way 暴虐，专横•Women, the play seems to suggest, must resist the tyranny of domesticity.这部戏似乎表明妇女必须抵制家务的束缚。 |