Tyrannical

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government.

编辑:路易斯

• Reflecting upon these and similar evils, you held the tyrannical State to be the most miserable of States? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Tell your tyrannical master, I do only beseech him to dismiss the Lady Rowena in honour and safety. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It's this sort of thing--this tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere--it's this sort of thing makes a man's name stink. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Truly a tyrannical son is a blessing to his father and mother! 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And the tyrannical soul must be always poor and insatiable? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He who is of a tyrannical nature, and instead of leading a private life has been cursed with the further misfortune of being a public tyrant. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And when you see the same evils in the tyrannical man, what do you say of him? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And is there any man in whom you will find more of this sort of misery than in the tyrannical man, who is in a fury of passions and desires? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The number of the interval which separates the king from the tyrant, and royal from tyrannical pleasures, is 729, the cube of 9. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Is he tyrannical? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The shadow then of tyrannical pleasure determined by the number of length will be a plane figure. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Truly, then, I said, a tyrannical son is a blessing to his father and mother. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In speaking of the number 729 as proper to human life, he probably intended to intimate that one year of the tyrannical = 12 hours of the royal life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He is neither tyrannical nor hypocritical. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Last of all comes the tyrannical man; about whom we have once more to ask, how is he formed out of the democratical? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And must not the tyrannical man be like the tyrannical State, and the democratical man like the democratical State; and the same of the others? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have to enquire, Whence is he, and how does he live--in happiness or in misery? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And the lustful and tyrannical desires are, as we saw, at the greatest distance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Yes, he said, that is the way in which the tyrannical man is generated. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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