She has had to steal this six thousand rupees because she could not be open with me, because she felt that, in certain things, I despotically differed from her.
她不得不偷走这六千卢比,因为她无法对我敞开心扉,因为她觉得,在某些事情上,我与她截然不同。
悬崖(上)
Tatiana Markovna had an estate and a village of her own, but after the death of Raisky's parents she had established herself on their little estate, which she ruled like a miniature kingdom, wisely, economically, carefully and despotically.
Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy. Despotism is defined in the English dictionary as “the rule of a despot; the exercise of absolute authority.”