oppression

抑圧、圧政

人々を誰かの支配下に置く、残酷または不公平な扱い。

やさしい英語で： Cruel or unfair treatment that keeps people under someone else's power.

• They fought against oppression.
• Many families fled years of political oppression.
• The novel describes a community living under oppression.

類義語： persecution, tyranny, repression

反対語： freedom, liberation

よく使う表現： political oppression, resist oppression, escape oppression, state oppression

圧迫感、重苦しさ

心や体に感じる、重さや悲しさ、圧迫感などの不快な感覚。

やさしい英語で： An unpleasant feeling of heaviness, sadness, or pressure in your mind or body.

• She felt a strange oppression in her chest.
• The dark room filled him with a sense of oppression.
• A walk in the sunshine eased her oppression.

類義語： heaviness, gloom

反対語： relief

よく使う表現： sense of oppression, oppression in something