英文词源
- oppress
- oppress: see press
- oppress (v.)
- mid-14c., from Old French opresser "oppress, afflict; torment, smother" (13c.), from Medieval Latin oppressare, frequentative of Latin opprimere "press against, press together, press down;" figuratively "crush, put down, subdue, prosecute relentlessly" (in Late Latin "to rape"), from ob "against" (see ob-) + premere "to press, push" (see press (v.1)).
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]
Related: Oppressed; oppressing.
中文词源
词根词缀： op-对面 + -press-压 → 压制对立的一方
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：oppress 词源，oppress 含义。
op-,在上，表强调，press,压，按，逼迫。引申词义压制，压迫。
