oppressive

• adj.圧迫される；重い；圧迫される；耐えられない

oppress（抑圧する、圧迫する）、-ive（形容詞接尾辞）から。

oppressive (adj.)

1640s, from Medieval Latin oppressivus, from oppress-, past participle stem of opprimere (see oppress). Related: Oppressively; oppressiveness.

1. The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace.

新しい法律は、元の法律と同じように厳しいだけです。

2.The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out.

午後の耐え難い高温に彼はすっかりへとへとになった。

3.This country still had a deeply oppressive ，unequal and divisive political system.

この国の政治体制は依然として残虐で異常であり、平等を欠き、四分五裂している。

4.My desire to be rich was an insane，unwholesome， oppressive desire.

私の富への渇望は、心の重石のように狂って病的である。

5.The little room was windowless and oppressive .

この小さな部屋には窓がなく、蒸し暑くてたまらない。