repression

英 [rɪˈpreʃn]

美 [rɪˈpreʃn]

n.  压制; 镇压; 抑制; 克制; 压抑

复数：repressions　

考研TEM8医学

BNC.7300 / COCA.7683

牛津词典

noun

• 压制；镇压
  the act of using force to control a group of people and restrict their freedom
  1. government repression
     政府的压制
• 抑制；克制；压抑
  the act of controlling strong emotions and desires and not allowing them to be expressed so that they no longer seem to exist
  1. sexual repression
     性压抑

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 镇压;压制;控制
  Repressionis the use of force to restrict and control a society or other group of people.
  1. ...a society conditioned by violence and repression.
     受暴力和镇压制约的社会
  2. ...the repressions of the 1930s.
     20世纪30年代的镇压
• N-UNCOUNT (情感，尤指性欲的)压抑，控制
  Repressionof feelings, especially sexual ones, is a person's unwillingness to allow themselves to have natural feelings and desires.
  1. ...the repression of his feelings about men.
     他对男人情感的压抑

英英释义

noun

• the act of repressing
  1. his goal was the repression of insolence
• (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
• a state of forcible subjugation
  1. the long repression of Christian sects

双语例句

• Its association with HCF-1 suggests an epigenetic mechanism of gene repression in pluripotent cells.
  而在多能干细胞中磺胺吡啶与HCF-1的结合也表明了一种基因阻遏的表观遗传机制。
• It described the women under repression and gradually awake to revolt the patriarchy.
  它描写了受压迫妇女的逐渐觉醒和对父权制的反抗。
• No government anywhere subjects its own people to such a barbarous regime of fear, repression and hunger.
  没有任何地方的政府会将本国人民压制在这种充满恐惧、压抑和饥饿的野蛮体制中。
• This argument is only too blatantly an alibi for domestic repression.
  这一辩解完全是在为国内的镇压活动开脱。
• He told her that emotional repression and sublimation was preventing her from understanding her own behaviour.
  他告诉她情感的压抑与升华使她无法理解自己的行为。
• Those same decades were marked in Egypt by rising levels of violence and intellectual repression.
  那几十年，埃及的暴力和思想压制不断升级。
• Repression and Liberation: Details and Symbols in Daily Life
  压抑和解放：日常生活的细节和符号
• Zimbabwean teachers, forced out by hunger and repression, work as security guards and shop assistants.
  被饥饿和压迫驱逐在外的津巴布韦教师们承担着保安和店员的工作。
• Long time repression could lead to host of social problems.
  农民工长时间性压抑会导致许多社会问题。
• We fight for an end to imperialist wars and to repression of our class and its struggles.
  我们将为终结帝国主义战争和所有针对我们的阶级压迫而战斗。