Tyrant
['taɪr(ə)nt] or ['taɪrənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a cruel and oppressive dictator.
(noun.) any person who exercises power in a cruel way; 'his father was a tyrant'.
(noun.) in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it.
艾格尼丝編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.
(n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird.
(v. i.) To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.
埃利斯手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Despot, absolute ruler.[2]. Oppressor, cruel master.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Despot, persecutor, oppressor,[See ARBITRARY]
校對:伦道夫
解釋/意思:
n. one who uses his power arbitrarily and oppressively: (orig.) an absolute monarch or irresponsible magistrate with unlimited powers or an overruling influence.—v.t. to tyrannise over.—n. Ty′ran (Spens.) a tyrant.—v.t. to play the tyrant over.—n. Tyr′anness (Spens.) a female tyrant.—adjs. Tyran′nic -al Tyr′annous pertaining to or suiting a tyrant: unjustly severe: imperious: despotic.—advs. Tyran′nically Tyr′annously.—n. Tyran′nicalness.—adj. Tyran′nicidal.—n. Tyran′nicide the act of killing a tyrant: one who kills a tyrant.—n.pl. Tyran′nid?/span> a family of Passerine birds the typical genus Tyran′nus the tyrant-birds or tyrant-flycatchers.—v.i. Tyr′annise to act as a tyrant: to rule with oppressive severity.—v.t. to act the tyrant to.—adj. Tyr′annish.—n. Tyr′anny the government or authority of a tyrant: absolute monarchy cruelly administered: oppression: cruelty: harshness.
編輯:凯利
例句/造句/用法:
- But if so, the tyrant will live most unpleasantly, and the king most pleasantly? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The broken-spirited, old, maternal grandfather was likewise subject to the little tyrant. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Courage and ambition, when not regulated by benevolence, are fit only to make a tyrant and public robber. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- No; but it can give varieties of pain, and prevent us from breaking our hearts with a single tyrant master-torture. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Beginning with the State, I replied, would you say that a city which is governed by a tyrant is free or enslaved? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- To put it briefly, democracy is afraid of the tyrant. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The republicans are fast making a tyrant of their own flesh and blood. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Then comparing our original city, which was under a king, and the city which is under a tyrant, how do they stand as to virtue? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In a well-ordered State there are only a few such, and these in time of war go out and become the mercenaries of a tyrant. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The tyrant is the third removed from the oligarch, and has therefore, not a shadow of his pleasure, but the shadow of a shadow only. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And the State which is enslaved under a tyrant is utterly incapable of acting voluntarily? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- That black-coated tyrant's niece--that quiet, delicate Miss Helstone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I think he said it was the worst tyrant of all. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- And is not this the reason why of old love has been called a tyrant? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He made war against France, he said, because Napoleon was a tyrant, to free the French people. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In Greece they were called _tyrants_. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them--they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There is no need to suppose that he drew from life; or that his knowledge of tyrants is derived from a personal acquaintance with Dionysius. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- As they say, the persons who hate Irishmen most are Irishmen; so, assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- All princes who are disposed to become tyrants must probably approve of this opinion, and be willing to establish it; but is it not a dangerous one? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Like other tyrants, I carried my point. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- So dunnot turn faint-heart, and go to th' tyrants a-seeking work. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Tyrants were distinguished from kings, who claimed some sort of right, some family priority, for example, to rule. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When, later on, the Persians began to subjugate the Greek cities of Asia Minor, they set up pro-Persian tyrants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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