n. 1.暴君；专制君主。 2.暴虐专横的人。 3.【希腊史】僭主，霸主。 短语和例子 a local tyrant 恶霸，土豪。 scholar tyrants 学阀。
a cruel and oppressive dictator 同义词：autocrat, despot,
any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"
in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
A tyrant (Greek , tyrannos), in its modern English usage, is a ruler of a cruel and oppressive character who is an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution, or one who has usurped sovereignty. The original Greek term, however, merely meant an absolute sovereign without reference to character, bearing no pejorative connotation during the Archaic and early Classical periods, though it was clearly a bad word to Plato, and on account of the decisive influence of political philosophy its negative connotations only increased down into the Hellenistic period, becoming synonymous with "Authenteo" - another term which carried authoritarian connotations around the turn of the first century A.
例句与用法
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The tyrant throttled freedom in his country . 那暴君在国内压制自由。
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Tyranny reacts upon the tyrant . 对于暴虐者反应也是暴虐行动。
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The peasants rise against the tyrant . 农民们起来反抗暴君。
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Down with amulius the tyrant ! 打倒暴君阿穆利乌斯！
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The old tyrant was dead of a heart attack at sixty five . 老伯爵死于心脏病发作，终年六十五岁。
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A nation is groaning under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant . 一个国家在无可忍耐的暴君奴役下喘息。
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He is the one righteous englishman in a horde of tyrants . 他是一群土豪恶棍中唯一一个堂堂正正的英国人。
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Tell begged the tyrant not to have him make this test of his skill . 台尔请求暴君不要用这个办法来检验他的技艺。
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Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states . 只要人能保持其多种成分，我们就不会变成暴君式的国家。
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The tyrant president got his comeuppance when his country was invaded and conquered . 当他的国家被攻克时，那位暴虐的总统得到了他应得的惩罚。
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