And that when men revolt from a system because they believe it to be too definite and oppressive, they are likely to go to other extreme.

当人们因为一个系统太具体、太压抑而去反抗他的时候，他们很可能在走向另一个极端。

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And that when men revolt from a system because they believe it to be too definite and oppressive, they are likely to go to the other extreme.

而且，当人反叛一种制度，因为他们觉得这种制度太确切而且具有压迫性时，他们很可能走向另一个极端。

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Looking out her window, she noticed the sky had become overcast. Low, rounded, oddly colored clouds were forming. It was still and oppressive.

从窗口望出去，她看到天空乌云密布，而且一团团颜色怪异的云正在低空形成，空气静止而且沈闷。

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Have you lifted the oppressive sanctions? Have you stopped insulting us and making accusations against our great nation and its leaders?

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He's the friend of women everywhere, at least for a few of his female readers in the eighteenth century, and for many he's the very embodiment of oppressive patriarchy.

他到处都有女人缘，至少在18世纪他有不少女性读者，但对很多人来说他是压抑的男权主义的象征。

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Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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The Leicestershire paceman finished India off with a spell of 3-10 in seven balls on a cloudy and oppressive morning.

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They are given impossible tasks, in unfamiliar and oppressive conditions, that they then are expected to complete with success.

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In March, the High Court ruled that it would be "unjust and oppressive" to extradite him to South Africa, as his mental condition had deteriorated since his arrest.

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