“downtrodden”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

downtrodden

释义

downtrodden, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
(daʊnˈtrɒd(ə)n, as ppl. a. ˈdaʊnˌtrɒd(ə)n)
1. Trampled down; beaten down by treading.
1568U. Fulwell Like Will to Like in Hazl. Dodsley III. 341 Repent, repent, your sins shall be downtrodden.1846H. Rogers Ess. (1860) I. 175 The down-trodden grass.1875Longfellow Pandora viii. 4 The flowers, downtrodden by the wind.
2. fig. Crushed down by oppression or tyranny.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 241 This downe-troden equity.1641Milton Reform. ii. ad fin., The most dejected..and downtrodden vassals of perdition.1845–6Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. i. iii. 43 All the..crushed and down-trodden of the earth.1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 342 The down⁓trodden serfs of Franconia.
Hence ˈdown-ˌtroddenness.
1881F. G. Lee Reg. Baront. i. 5 Their expatriation, poverty, and down-troddenness.

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