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I feel as if I had fire and ice within me, and the air is so oppressive.

我觉得好像身体里有火又有冰，空气如此的沉闷。

HALF a year since the Arabs began to shake off their oppressive slumber, the picture is patchy.

半年来，自从阿拉伯人开始摆脱他们受压制的噩梦，情形有好有坏。

To suggest that this is the result of a revolution against an oppressive government or the consequences of welfare reform is total nonsense.

建议一下，这样反对政府压迫或者是福利改革的结果，是很荒谬的。

Like every young man at his age, he felt a vague and oppressive emotion surging up in his heart.

他跟所有的这样年纪的年轻人一样，已经感到一种朦胧的、折磨人的情感在他心中涌起来了。

Downstairs, in the bar, it had a much more friendly atmosphere, but upstairs felt oppressive and claustrophobic.

楼下酒吧里的气氛很好。但楼上却让人感到压抑恐惧。

It was a decision to leave a particularly oppressive and restrictive way of living and to try living differently.

是决定离开特殊压迫及限制的生活，或是跟随诱惑去尝试不同的生活方式。

He emitted a laboured breath, as if the scene were getting rather oppressive to his heart, or to his conscience, or to his gentility .

他沉重地呼了一口气，仿佛当时的情景使他的良心感受到了压力，使他的良知和脸面也感受到了压力。

The rule of the tsars was so oppressive that it did not take much to provoke the masses into a revolution.

沙皇的统治非常暴虐，所以不用花多大气力就能激发大众起来革命。

There was no view anywhere, nothing but the oppressive and silent scrub.

哪儿也没有好景致，只有令人压抑的寂静的矮树林。

A dystopia is usually characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government, or some other kind of oppressive social control.

反乌托邦通常具有以下特点，独裁主义者或极权主译者的政府形式，或者一些其他压迫性的社会控制。

Are the newcomers prepared to shoulder some of the burdens which we have suddenly discovered to be oppressive?

这些新来者准备承担一部分我们突然间感到很沉重的那些负担吗？

The atmosphere of the room was almost oppressive for the rich odours of perfumes in bottles whose gold stoppers had not been replaced.

香水瓶的金塞子都不曾塞好，房间的空气里充满了强烈的香气，香得几乎咄咄逼人。

Nowhere did we stop long enough to get a particularized impression, but the general sense of vague and oppressive wonder grew upon me.

我们停靠的所有地方，虽因时间短促没有留下特别的印象，但却使我的心头蒙上了一种莫可名状的难以忍受的感觉。

Ever since morning the air had been oppressive, as though it were holding its breath.

从早晨开始空气就很压抑，好像天空窒息了一般。

The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.

森林的静谧比起暑热来更为逼人，在这个时刻，甚至连各种昆虫的哀鸣都没有了。

There are few other indoor spaces, she said, where she can entertain the children free on an oppressive summer afternoon.

“很少有像这样的室内空间，”她说，“可以让孩子们在闷热的夏日午后自由玩耍。”

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，空气静止而且沉闷。

I felt stunned by the awful event; and my memory unavoidably recurred to former times with a sort of oppressive sadness.

这可怕的事件使我昏了头：我不可避免地怀着一种压抑的悲哀回忆起往日。

And I'm proud that the State Department is already working in more than 40 countries to help individuals silenced by oppressive governments.

我引以为豪的是，国务院已经在40多个国家展开努力，帮助那些声音被压制性政府扼杀的人。

Cleaning away dirt, her contributors suggest, can be healing or oppressive, comforting or obsessive, or each of these at different times.

一位女投稿人写道，“清理污垢，可以修复或压迫，舒适或沉醉，或是每一次都经历不同的时刻”。