tyranny是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 暴政， 专制； 残暴，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Saint Antoine's blood was up, and the blood of tyranny and domination by the iron hand was down down on the steps of the Hotel de Ville where the governor's body lay down on the sole of the shoe of Ma-dame Defarge where she had trodden on the body to steady it for mutilation.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An effective story might also have been made by bringing him into contact with some old painter whom the pressure of want or the desire for commercial success had made false to the genius of his youth, and who, seeing in Strickland the possibilities which himself had wasted, influenced him to forsake all and follow the divine tyranny of art.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here I may remark, that what I underwent from Mrs. Crupp,in consequence of the tyranny she established over me, wasdreadful.
-- We talk about the tyranny of words, but welike to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a largesuperfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on greatoccasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the ladies being together under these circumstances, it was extremely natural that the discourse should turn upon the propensity of mankind to tyrannize over the weaker sex, and the duty that developed upon the weaker sex to resist that tyranny and assert their rights and dignity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he ap-peared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a horrible tyranny of a fixed milieu, where each piece of furniture is a commandment-stone."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the sec-ond: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials.'
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