Karen Ebel's father emigrated to the U.S.in 1937 from Germany to flee the increasingly oppressive Nazi state.

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So the Pax Romana may have sounded great, if you were an elite, but if you were not in the elite, it may have seemed more oppressive than anything.

所以罗马和平对精英阶层听着很美好，但如果你不是精英阶层，就会觉得更像是压迫。

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He's the friend of women everywhere, at least for a few of his female readers in the eighteenth century, and for many he's the very embodiment of oppressive patriarchy.

他到处都有女人缘，至少在18世纪他有不少女性读者，但对很多人来说他是压抑的男权主义的象征。

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Because the wardens-- people off the street, randomly divided- were becoming so oppressive.

因为随意找来的，随机分配的典狱长们-,变得非常残暴。

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Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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Well, if that's right, then should we say that the pervasiveness of death, ubiquitousness of death-- the thing that I was earlier suggesting was oppressive-- wouldn't it really be nice to have a death-free time or a death-free location or death-free activities?

如果是这样的话，那我们是不是应该说死亡的普遍性，死亡的无处不在性-,这些我之前所说的特征是不对的-,如果有死亡免疫时间或者死亡免疫地点,或者死亡免疫活动岂不是很好吗？

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I mentioned earlier that it's Virginia Woolf who's largely responsible for our sense of Milton's identity as an oppressive patriarchal literary voice, but Virginia Woolf, too, had inherited these contradictory ways of thinking about Milton and about Milton's power.

我先前提到过，我们之所以会,把弥尔顿看作是男权主义在文学领域的发言人,在很大程度上是由于佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫，但佛吉尼亚也继承了这互相矛盾的,思考弥尔顿及其力量的方式。

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In the debates ranging for the last thirty years or so over the value of traditional pedagogy and over the value of canonical reading lists, Milton is always cited, invariably cited, as the canon's most stalwart representative of oppressive religious and social values.

过去30多年来，在传统教育学和权威必读书目,对价值的争辩中，米尔顿总是，无一例外的，被看做是英国文学经典中,宣扬压迫性的宗教社会价值的最坚定代表。

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As far as religion--Ehrman talks about this in your textbook, - so I won't go into a lot of detail-- but the common Hollywood idea that the Romans were kind of oppressive of other religions, or the Christians, is just that, a Hollywood idea.

至于宗教。。。Ehrman教授在课本里讲得很详细了，我就不再赘述了-,不过好莱坞电影里常常,描绘罗马人压迫其他宗教，或者基督教徒，这只是好莱坞电影。

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