1A cruel and oppressive ruler.

因民众示威而被废黜的暴君。

1. 1.1 A person exercising power or control in a cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary way.
   暴君似人物；专横的人，残暴的人
   her father was a tyrant and a bully

   他父亲专横霸道。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • We must help all those who want to face the tyrants as our founding fathers did.
   • Imitation appears to be a hallmark of tyrants in their exercise of power, so the absence of solidarity among Africa's journalists and Africa's peoples has created a dangerous vacuum.
   • They are tyrants and ideologues whose sole concern is imposing their Nietzschean will to power upon the weak, the uprightly bourgeois, the decently intentioned.
   • On the one hand, you don't want to reward tyrants with power; on the other, you'd like to see the trains run on time.
   • He may have been controlled by a tyrant, but now he isn't.
   • Thus, Anselm's God is not an arbitrary monarch or a tyrant with no accountability and with a bloodthirsty desire for punishment or payment.
   • Small men took on the powers and airs of tyrants and masters.
   • Beneath a perfunctory veil of fiction, Keneally shows us a real-life tyrant exercising a power so absolute and unfeeling that it appears amoral, rather than immoral.
   • And if I believed that Christian faith and morality required meek submission to bullies and tyrants, I might have the same reaction.
   • Some are very gentle, polite, and accommodating during the workday to clients and customers, but when they come home they become demanding and unyielding tyrants.
   • But girls who look like they have self-esteem can also be tyrants, like what you saw in that video, and it could be false self-esteem.
   • After all, she and her husband were not tyrants.
   • Old people want to be loved and respected, otherwise they turn into tyrants.
   • It enables people to grow their own food and develop local economies not beholden to either home-grown tyrants or multinational corporations.
   • Of course, I learnt how to cope with dangerous tyrants during my spell in military intelligence in the Falklands.
   • Svensson takes on the persona of Strindberg and talks about his life from a childhood intimidated by a tyrant of a father to the time of his relationships with his three wives.
   • When we use the term, we're paying homage to generations of men south of the border who refused to give up the right to protect themselves and their families because petty tyrants attempted to make them helpless.
   • In the aging actress films, transitory tyrants return with a vengeance and refuse to pass away.
   • In this age of ‘Political Correctness’, his Newspeak is a warning to us all about what can happen when tyrants gain control of semantics, history and media.
   • There's this tyrant of a father - whom we've changed to a tyrant of a mother - who's saying marry this guy or die.

   Synonyms

   slave-driver, martinet, hard taskmaster, scourge

   bully
2. 1.2 (especially in ancient Greece) a ruler who seized absolute power without legal right.
   （尤指古希腊）僭主，僭王
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   • This is the beginning of Olympia I, which is written for a tyrant in Sicily by the name of Heron.
   • This would be a conventional political charge against a tyrant (he usurps rights).
   • Until 495 B.C. the city of Miletus was the greatest of the Greek cities when, after an unsuccessful revolt against the Persian tyrants who controlled it, the city was destroyed.
   • The question that divided them is still a live one: Does a tyrant, who seizes power by force, who is obeyed from fear, have a right to rule?
   • For a time he was also the brother-in-law of the Athenian tyrant, Peisistratus, who seized power three times before finally establishing a stable and apparently benevolent dictatorship.
   • Since Innocent eventually won that rivalry and was recognized as the legitimate pope, Roger came to be painted as a usurper and a tyrant.
   • Instead of battling power-hungry tyrants in ancient China, Maxine sees herself pitted against institutionalized racism in contemporary America.
   • Procopius, writing more than a century later records that ‘The Romans were no longer able to recover Britain, which from that time on continued to be ruled by tyrants [i.e. usurpers]’.
   • In Italy the employment of mercenary companies became endemic, as the tyrants like the Visconti needed to employ these mercenary armies to prop themselves up - and that in a way was the cradle of the Renaissance.
   • He now offered full co-operation to Bonaparte, and began by organizing an ‘armed neutrality’ of Baltic powers to deny the tyrant of the seas access to the ports of northern Europe.
   • They thought the Republic would revive of itself when the tyrant was removed; that the Senate would pick up the reigns and lead once again.
   • There would never be a better chance to eliminate the tyrant.
   • According to one episode, Jamshid, the Iranian equivalent of King Solomon, after reigning for 700 years was overthrown by the tyrant Zahhak.
   • Sparta freed many cities, including Athens, from their tyrants, fought bravely for Greek freedom from the Persians, and then claimed to be freeing Greece from Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
   • All over the country, and in fact all over the world, people are waking up to the horrors being perpetrated by the tyrants of power and authority.
   • His father was overthrown by tyrants, so he was sent here to develop his powers then go back to throw down some furious anger at his oppressors.
   • Terracottas from the temple site at Sant'Omobono may belong to the reign of Superbus; in any event they confirm that the later Roman kings were flamboyant rulers who modelled themselves on contemporary Greek tyrants.
   • Ever since the war between Ignus and Iudicium ended, one enigmatic question continued to eat at many people's minds: where did these two terrifying tyrants amass such numbers for their armies?
   • To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
   • By appointing queens, the mercantile oligarchs were attempting to capture the legitimacy the tyrant's power had generated, but to limit the use of that power.

2A tyrant flycatcher.