repress是什么意思，repress怎么用
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repress
TOEFL SAT TEM8
📰 外刊例句
Its members help break down food, produce chemicals that regulate the body within which they live, and repress the growth of other, harmful species of bacteria. 其成员帮助分解食物、生成能调节宿主身体机能的化学物质，以及抑制其他有害细菌的生长等。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[verb]
subdue
(someone or something) by force
[动词] 用武力制服（某人或某物）
💡 深入解读
从词源上来看， repress 一词源自由前缀 re- （回、向后）+拉丁语premere（按压、紧握、覆盖、挤满、压缩）构成而来的拉丁语reprimere（阻止、控制、限制、抑制、克制）。14世纪末经reprimere的过去分词repressus进入英语后， repress 既可以用来表示“抑制、压抑、克制”，主要指通过外部力量、意志力量或精神力量抑制、压抑或克制泪水、愤怒、微笑、喷嚏等事物的表达或发展，包括压抑某个思想或欲望并使其变得或保持无意识，常意味着被抑制的东西可能会再次爆发或者以不同的方式爆发
强抑着不发出呻吟声
repress a moan
People who repress their emotions risk having nightmares.压抑情感的人容易做噩梦。
A trusted confidant of the President burst in, making no effort to repress his fury.总统的一位亲信冲了进来，毫不掩饰自己的愤怒。
Turkish Kurds have been repressed for decades by the Ankara government.也可以用来表示“镇压、平息、压制、制止”，常用被动语态，主要指用军事或政治力量控制某人或某物并限制其自由。比如：土耳其的库尔德人已经被安卡拉政府压制了几十年。
📚 名著用例
She could not repress her delight in doing this little thing which, to an ordinary observer, had no importance at all. Hurstwood was charmed by the development of the fact that the girl had capabilities. There is nothing so inspiring in life as the sight of a legitimate ambition, no matter how incipient . 尽管在一般人眼里这事情无足轻重，她却无法克制她的快乐情绪。赫斯渥看到嘉莉显露的才华不禁着了迷。在生活中再没有比看到正当的雄心更让人振奋的事了，不管这种雄心多么幼稚。
— 出自《美国现实主义作家西奥多·德莱赛（Theodore Dreiser）创作的长篇小说《嘉莉妹妹》（ Sister Carrie ）。》
🔍 同近义词
- suppress: forcibly put an end to
- quell: put an end to (a rebellion or other disorder), typically by the use of force
- subdue: overcome, quieten, or bring under control (a feeling or person)
