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单词 repressive
释义
repressive
adjective
uk
/rɪˈpres.ɪv/us
/rɪˈpres.ɪv/
controllingwhatpeopledo,especiallyby usingforce:
（尤指通过武力进行的）镇压，压制
a repressivemilitaryregime残酷专制的军事政权
preventingpeoplefromexpressingtheirfeelings
抑制（感情）的，压制（言论）的
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Preventing and impeding

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repressiveness
(Definition ofrepressivefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrepressive

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I missed a more critical reflection on 'development ' as a concept, and material on therepressiveeffects of religion (or politics).
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Just as therepressiveregime discouraged labour protest, so this protest tended to provoke further repression.
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The mass uprooting of the population further fostered discontent and political activism among them, leading the authorities to adopt an even morerepressivepolicy.
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Both of these scenarios are in contrast to the chromatin environment of presenescent normal cells, in which permissive andrepressivemodifications are at a minimum.
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Here we report the characterization of arepressiveeffect associated with a wild-type chromosome with a number of novel attributes.
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Why shouldrepressiveactivity be correlated with temperature ?
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Rank-and-®le of®cers had their own input into therepressiveprocess.
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In sum, most historians looked down onrepressiveand marginal poor relief systems.
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All the same one wonders how exactly poor relief could be bothrepressiveand unimportant.
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As opposition to his autarchic style mounted in the following months, the dictator employed increasinglyrepressivemeasures to subjugate dissenting voices.
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Protest gained impetus in response to therepressiverules or intransigence of the regime.
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Besides, privatisation was more likely where the political regime was morerepressive.
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In countries withrepressivegovernments, feelings of discontentment among citizens may encourage actions that contribute to greater liberalization of the political and economic process.
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They did protect the gas station, for example, and some other specific stores with the zeal that therepressiveforces reserved for big chain supermarkets.
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Moreover, the same transmitter may have activating as well asrepressivefunctions.
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