Adjective:

1. weighing heavily on the senses or spirit;

   "the atmosphere was oppressive"
   "oppressive sorrows"
   

2. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior;

   "the oppressive government"
   "oppressive laws"
   "a tyrannical parent"
   "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
   

oppressive laws

对部分人的压制性法律

an oppressive regime

残暴的政权

oppressive heat

难熬的酷暑

an oppressive relationship

令人苦恼的关系

to behave oppressively

表现得盛气凌人

oppressively hot

热得令人窒息

He suffered from an oppressively dominant mother.

他那武断专横的母亲令他苦不堪言。

The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace.

新法律只会与原来的法律一样苛严。

...refugees from the oppressive regime.

逃离暴政的难民

The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out...

下午闷热的天气使他疲惫不堪。

The little room was windowless and oppressive.

这个小房间没有窗户，使人感到闷热难耐。

...the oppressive sadness that weighed upon him like a physical pain.

如肉体上的疼痛一样压在他心头的令人抑郁的悲伤

She could feel alone with theand the sky, away from the oppressive masquerade of ages.

她要独立与天地为伍, 离开那令人窒息的世纪的假面舞会.

War was grueling and oppressive and frustrating and uncomfortable, but one had friends.

战争虽然严酷,暴虐, 富有破坏性,给人带来灾难,但它却使人从中得到知心朋友.

He is sufferring at the same time oppressive, is one side even virtuous?

他一面受着压迫, 一面还要讲道德?

The heat in the tropics can be oppressive.

热带气候热得难受.

Another oppressive night descended.

闷热的夜又来临了.

This wisdom born of experience can be exercised without being oppressive.

从经验中得出的智慧既可以发挥作用,又不致使人感到强加于人.

The new government is less oppressive, but violence still stalks the country.

新政府的压制有所减弱, 但暴力仍困扰着这个国家.

It's muggy and oppressive.

天气又潮湿又闷热.

Communism is an oppressive ideology.

共产主义是一种强制的意识形态.

They went on strike against the oppressive regulation.

他们罢工以示他们对这不公平的规则的反抗.

They can not bear the oppressive treatment.

他们不能容忍这种不公平的待遇.

But for the protestors , the ban is unfounded and oppressive, they said.

但是抗议者讲, 对他们来说禁令是毫无理由的,是压迫.

An oppressive silence fell upon the room.

死样的沉默压在这书房里.

By midday the irk of his pack became too oppressive.

走到中午的时候,累赘的包袱压得他受不了.

She noticed that the air in the room was very oppressive.

她注意到房间里很憋闷.

• oppressive%20weather">oppressive weather闷热天气
• oppressive%20practices">oppressive practices压迫行为
• oppressive%20agreement">oppressive agreement苛刻的协议
• oppressive%20clause">oppressive clause苛刻的条款

• He's still sanctioning an oppressive regime.

  出自：W. McIlvanney