oppressive

1. ADJ If you describe a society, its laws, or customs as oppressive, you think they treat people cruelly and unfairly. 壓迫的

The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace. 新法律將跟被它所取代的那些法律一樣不公正。

2. ADJ If you describe the weather or the atmosphere in a room as oppressive, you mean that it is unpleasantly hot and damp. 溼熱的

The oppressive afternoon heat had tired him out. 溼熱的午後暑氣使他筋疲力盡。

3. ADJ An oppressive situation makes you feel depressed and uncomfortable. 令人感到壓抑的

...the oppressive sadness that weighed upon him like a physical pain. …像肉躰疼痛一樣沉重地壓著他、令他抑鬱的悲傷。