It refers instead, to the concrete, collective, communal salvation from national suffering and oppression, particularly in the form of foreign rule or enslavement.

相反，它指的是很具体的，集体的，社会的拯救,把一个国家从苦难和压迫中解救出来，尤其是那些在外族统治者奴役下的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One thing that does matter to our base level of wellbeing which is external circumstance is democracy versus oppression.

对基础幸福水平很重要的一样东西,它是一个外在因素，那就是民主和压迫。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Hamas is a word that literally means violence, bloodshed, but also all kinds of injustice and oppression.

哈马斯在文学中是暴力，血腥，各种压迫和不公平的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And, so, this is an entry path to see this, to see this thing brought down as a symbol of centralized oppression.

这正是观察集权压制,走向末路的一个切入点

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Obviously poverty and racism and oppression can also corrupt one's spirit and turn the person into someone who is bitter and angry, filled with rage.

当然，贫穷，歧视，压迫,会摧垮一个人的精神，让人变得,愤世嫉俗，满腔怒火。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And in later letters in this series between her and Richard, and also in the review that she wrote up for the Book of the Month Club newsletter), she invokes the Nazis specifically as a comparison to the kind of oppression that Richard was trying to escape in the South.

她在之后与理查的通信中，把理查在南方,与德国纳粹做比较，当时社会的主流思想,就是在为了美国式的理想,为了自由而战。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

On the one hand, those voices were ones that were quite condemnatory of the sham Christianity which they saw around them, which justified racism and slavery and oppression.

一方面说，这些声音,为基督教的虚伪,感到可耻，因为事实表明，教堂把种族歧视，奴隶制，压迫合法化。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选