Tyranny

(n.) The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.

(n.) Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.

(n.) Severity; rigor; inclemency.

校对:伊薇特

• And you talk of the tyranny of the masters! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She loved him as a kind elder brother; a relation to guide, protect, and instruct her, without the too frequent tyranny of parental authority. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Say then, my friend, In what manner does tyranny arise? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Their extreme youth, and the purity of their attachment, made them yield with less resistance to the tyranny of circumstances. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It is a horrible tyranny of a fixed milieu, where each piece of furniture is a commandment-stone. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But now my boasted independence was daily instigating me to acts of tyranny, and freedom was becoming licentiousness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• As soon as government begins to supply services, it is turning away from the sterile tyranny of the taboo. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This is only part of a system:--a scheme of tyranny to which I will never submit. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The common rule requires submission; and it is only in cases of grievous tyranny and oppression, that the exception can take place. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• They would have adjudged him right served for his tyranny and meddling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Where the tyranny of the governor removes this interest, it also removes the natural obligation to obedience. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But from my former knowledge of my present captain, I confess I look forward with apprehension to a long course of tyranny on board the Russell. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• At last, one monster passion takes possession of the whole nature of man--this is tyranny. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But his indulgence in these and his personal tyrannies and cruelties did not interfere with the general prosperity of the empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Some of our best-intentioned political schemes, like reform colonies and scientific jails, turn out to be inhuman tyrannies just because our imagination does not penetrate the sociological label. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The bright and thriving cities of Switzerland have been a refuge for free men from a score of tyrannies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Privilege of certain types had gone, many tyrannies, much religious persecution. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But that is a confusion of thought, for these tyrannies are merely intrusions of the eighteenth century upon the twentieth. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Tyrannies and race hatred, national rivalries, sex problems, the difficulties of artistic endeavor, all failures, crimes, vices--there is not one which he will not relate to private capitalism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Well, he said, have you never heard that forms of government differ; there are tyrannies, and there are democracies, and there are aristocracies? 柏拉图. 理想国.

整理:塞丽娜