An excess of house plants in a small apartment can be oppressive.
在一套狭小公寓里放过多的室内植物会给人压抑感。
Perhaps in the face of impersonal and intimidating globalization, a young person's family feels more like a friendly haven than an oppressive trap.
或许,面临缺乏人情味且令人生畏的全球化冲击时,家庭对于年轻人而言,或许更像是友好的避风港,而非压抑的牢笼。
He tried to get Becky to talk, but her sorrows were too oppressive, all her hopes were gone.
他试图让贝基说话,但她的太悲伤了,她所有的希望都破灭了。
The meek husband used the most oppressive wife.
最温顺的丈夫惯出最暴虐的妻子。
Many exiles find Switzerland oppressive and miss London's variety.
很多背井离乡来到瑞士的人感到压抑而怀念起伦敦的丰富多彩。
I feel as if I had fire and ice within me, and the air is so oppressive.
我觉得好像身体里有火又有冰,空气如此的沉闷。
They may see it as a rejection of the oppressive attitudes of the older generation.
他们可能从片中看到了对老一代人粗暴态度的反抗。
Saudi Arabia remains shockingly conservative—indeed, suffocatingly oppressive to its women.
沙特阿拉伯保留了惊人的保守——事实上,是对他们妇女令人窒息的压迫。
The debt that had piled up in the good years became oppressive once lenders scented trouble.
资金的借贷者们一旦嗅到危险的气息,在经济繁荣的年份里累积的债务马上就变成沉重的负担。
You just have to try really hard to not be so oppressive and controlling in your affections.
你真的要尽量地控制自己的感情,不要让他感到有压迫性。
HALF a year since the Arabs began to shake off their oppressive slumber, the picture is patchy.
半年来,自从阿拉伯人开始摆脱他们受压制的噩梦,情形有好有坏。
I think that would only exacerbate a situation where people feel trapped by oppressive work schedules.
我想那样的话只能使情况恶化,使人有受到令人压抑的工作日程限制的感觉。
Downstairs, in the bar, it had a much more friendly atmosphere, but upstairs felt oppressive and claustrophobic.
楼下酒吧里的气氛很好。但楼上却让人感到压抑恐惧。
It was a decision to leave a particularly oppressive and restrictive way of living and to try living differently.
是决定离开特殊压迫及限制的生活,或是跟随诱惑去尝试不同的生活方式。
The fact that some people compare carrots to cows proves how muck-deep in oppressive thought meat-eaters truly are.
有人将胡萝卜与牛相提并论的事实足以证明肉食者陷入压迫性的思想有多深。
How to rescue a class of boys from a soulless existence, from oppressive familial expectations, from themselves?
当整个班级的男生都死气沉沉,被家庭的期望所束缚,被自己禁锢,要怎样做才能挽救他们?
I felt stunned by the awful event; and my memory unavoidably recurred to former times with a sort of oppressive sadness.
这可怕的事件使我昏了头:我不可避免地怀着一种压抑的悲哀回忆起往日。
No wonder Carr finds technology oppressive. Its needs trump ours! We're just cells, and the organism's the main thing.
所以卡尔发现科技具有强迫性是不足为怪的。科技的需求超过了我们的需求。我们只是细胞,生物体才是主体。
Her works include "Niederungen" and "Oppressive Tango," which depicted life in a small German-speaking village in Romania.
她的作品包括《低地》和《暴虐的探戈》,其中《暴虐的探戈》描写了在罗马尼亚一个说德语的小村庄的生活。
Cleaning away dirt, her contributors suggest, can be healing or oppressive, comforting or obsessive, or each of these at different times.
一位女投稿人写道,“清理污垢,可以修复或压迫,舒适或沉醉,或是每一次都经历不同的时刻”。
The trouble - as my customer has come to learn - is that the interest can be oppressive, especially if you only make minimum payments.
问题是——就像我的顾客意识到的那样——信用卡的利息会变的不可承受,特别是,当你只付得起最低还款额的时候。
Even with painful passions-fear, jealousy, anger-nature always suggests to us a solution, and with it an end to that oppressive feeling.
即使是恐惧、嫉妒和愤怒这些痛苦的情绪,造物主总能提供一种天然的解决之道。
Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.
米甸人压制以色列人。以色列人因为米甸人,就在山中挖穴,挖洞,建造营寨。
How America deals with them, and therefore with itself, will show it to be either the country seen by its bitter critics - selfish and oppressive.
美国如何对待他们,也是如何对待自己,会决定自己表现得要么像尖锐的批评者指出来的那样——自私、霸道。
I always had some writing assignment hanging over my head. At the time the school's policy seemed oppressive, but now I am grateful for the oppression.
当我回顾自己上学的这些年,有件事情总浮现在我脑海里,(私立)高中时我们时不时就要写文章上交,多得像是永远写不完,那个时候总觉得学校的这种规定很没天理,但现在我却十分感谢那时候的严格要求,它让我更好的胜任现在的工作。
I always had some writing assignment hanging over my head. At the time the school's policy seemed oppressive, but now I am grateful for the oppression.
当我回顾自己上学的这些年,有件事情总浮现在我脑海里,(私立)高中时我们时不时就要写文章上交,多得像是永远写不完,那个时候总觉得学校的这种规定很没天理,但现在我却十分感谢那时候的严格要求,它让我更好的胜任现在的工作。
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