subjugate
subjugate 英 [ˈsʌbdʒugeɪt] 美 [ˈsʌbdʒəˌɡet]
vt. 征服；使服从；克制
进行时:subjugating 过去式:subjugated 过去分词:subjugated 第三人称单数:subjugates 名词复数:subjugates
- If you say you won't be kept down by the man, you are saying that you won't let the man subjugate you. To subjugate is to repress someone, or to make them subservient to you.
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- vt. 征服；使服从；克制
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1. With your new army, continue to subjugate the planet’s other inhabitants using science.
你有新军队在手，可以继续用科学去征服这个星球上其他的居民。
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2. That the Japanese, in thrall to China from time immemorial, should try to subjugate their vast neighbor seemed an inversion of the cosmic order.
对于自上古时代起便臣服于中国的日本人来说，试图征服自己庞大的邻国，这看上去有些悖逆常理。
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3. The engineering feat, called the South-North Water Diversion Project, is China’s most ambitious attempt to subjugate nature.
这项工程被称为南水北调工程，是一项中国试图征服自然的雄心计划。
- subjugate (v.) early 15c., a back-formation from subjugation or else from Latin subiugatus, past participle of subiugare "to subjugate, subdue," literally "bring under the yoke," from sub "under" (see sub-) + iugum "yoke," from PIE root *yeug- "to join." Related: Subjugated; subjugating.
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