tyrannies

英 [ˈtɪrəniz]

美 [ˈtɪrəniz]

n.  暴虐; 专横; 苛政; 专政; 暴君统治; 暴君统治的国家
tyranny的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 暴政;苛政;专制政府
  Atyrannyis a cruel, harsh, and unfair government in which a person or small group of people have power over everyone else.
  1. He described these regimes as tyrannies and dictatorships…
     他把这些政权称作专制与独裁政府。
  2. Self-expression and individuality are the greatest weapons against tyranny.
     自我表现与追求个性是反抗暴政的最佳武器。
• N-UNCOUNT 专横;苛刻;严酷
  If you describe someone's behaviour and treatment of others that they have authority over astyranny, you mean that they are severe with them or unfair to them.
  1. I'm the sole victim of Mother's tyranny.
     我是唯一受母亲严加管制的人。
• N-COUNT (不中意或令人不快的)必需品
  You can describe something that you have to use or have as atyrannyif you think it is undesirable or unpleasant.
  1. The telephone is one of the great tyrannies of modern life.
     电话是现代生活中让人最反感的必需品之一。

双语例句

• Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities.
  与其他形式的专制类似，多数派的专制最初而且现在仍使大众感到恐惧，被认为是通过公共权威的行为来实现的。
• No surplus of accumulated purchasing power stands between him and the tyrannies of unfriendly nature.
  在个人与不友善的自然的残暴之间不存在聚集的购买力过剩。
• Due to their highly centralized tyrannies, they regarded political participation as a threat, rather than a latent support, to their regimes. Therefore, they pushed nearly all other groups outside the bureaucracy toward the opposite side of their regimes.
  但他们实行高度集权的专制统治，把政治参与视为对政权的威胁而不是潜在支持，因而把官僚体系以外的其他群体都推向了政权的对立面。
• The telephone is one of the great tyrannies of modern life.
  电话是现代生活中让人最反感的必需品之一。
• All John reed "s violent tyrannies, all his sisters" proud indifference, all his mother "s aversion, all the servants" partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.
  约翰德的专横霸道、姐妹的高傲冷漠、母亲的厌恶、人们的偏心，像一口混沌的水井中黑色的沉淀物，一古脑儿泛起在我烦恼不安的心头。
• As a novelist he used laughter to fight against the tyrannies that seek to take away man's freedom.
  作为一个小说家，他以滑稽诙谐的笔触同企图剥夺人类自由的暴虐作斗争。
• We have partly emancipated ourselves from these mental tyrannies: time to go the whole hog.
  在某种程度上，我们已经把自己从这些精神专治中解放出来，而现在是干到底的时候了。