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压迫
Oppression
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
懒惰是一切压迫中最沉重的。
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
压迫比侮辱更容易忍受。
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
反抗暴君就是服从上帝。
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
我们应该感到悲伤，而不是沉沦在它的压迫之下。
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
反抗压迫的欲望根植于人的本性之中。
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
在那些不喜欢压迫的人中，有许多人喜欢压迫。
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
如果作家只是坐着谈论压迫，他们就不会有太多写作。
As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
由于存在对多数人的压迫，这种压迫将以日益增长的仇恨进行斗争。
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
迫害对他们产生了自然的影响。它为他们找到了一个教派;这使他们成为一个派系。
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
但是，只有一件事能把人们聚集起来，引起煽动性的骚动，那就是压迫。
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
显然不可阻挡和不可战胜的压迫不会引起反抗，而是会使人屈服。
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
当一个人被剥夺过他所相信的生活的权利时，他别无选择，只能成为一个不法之徒。
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
压迫是一群人对另一群人所做的事，特别是因为后者有一个共同的威胁特征。
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
比起隔着半个地球的压迫和歧视，隔着半个地球的不公更容易激起人们的愤怒。
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
我一直努力发出希望的声音，在这个世界上，仇恨让位于尊重，压迫让位于解放。
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
要使自己的自由得到保障，就连敌人也必须保护自己不受压迫;因为如果他违反了这一义务，他就为自己树立了一个先例。
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
一个狂热者对一个民族的压迫念念不忘，直到他幻想自己受上天的委托去解放他们。他冒险尝试，结果除了自己的处决，几乎没有别的结果。