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oppressed 的詞源

oppressed(adj.)

"壓住或壓迫",無論是身體上還是精神上,14世紀後期,過去分詞形容詞來自於 oppress

Ovirredyn with a carte-wheel, The chyld oppressyd lay in the streete deed. [John Lydgate "Lives of Ss. Edmund & Fremund and the Extra Miracles of St. Edmund," mid-15c.] 
被一輛車輪壓住,孩子被壓在街上死了。[約翰·利德蓋特《聖埃德蒙和弗雷蒙德的生平以及聖埃德蒙的額外奇蹟》,15世紀中期。] 

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14世紀晚期,“ oppressen ”,“在……上過分強加或壓制,使煩惱,使(疾病、悲傷等)充溢”,還比喻地,“壓倒、打敗”; 還有“加諸殘酷、不公或不合理的限制,不公正地對待或過度嚴苛,以不正義的權力抑制”,源於13世紀的古法語“ opresser ”“壓迫,困擾; 拷問,悶死”,源自新拉丁語“ oppressare ”,表示拉丁語“ opprimere ”的反覆形式,“壓迫,擠在一起,壓制”; 比喻地表示“壓碎、制服、迫害”,在晚期拉丁語中表示“強姦”,源於拉丁語的同化形式“ ob ”,“靠着,反對”(見 ob- )+“ premere ”,“擠壓,緊貼,覆蓋,擁擠”(源自 PIE 根“ *per- ”(4)“打擊”)。在中古英語中也有“強姦”的意思。相關詞彙: Oppressedoppressing

It is the due [external] restraint and not the moderation of rulers that constitutes a state of liberty; as the power to oppress, though never exercised, does a state of slavery. [St. George Tucker, "View of the Constitution of the United States," 1803]
正是因爲統治者的合理限制而不是過度自由的掌控,才構成自由狀態; 因爲壓迫的權力,即使從未被行使,也會構成奴隸狀態。【聖·喬治·塔克,“美國憲法概覽”,1803年】
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