Tyrant

(noun.) a cruel and oppressive dictator.

(noun.) any person who exercises power in a cruel way; 'his father was a tyrant'.

(noun.) in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it.

艾格尼丝编辑

• But if so, the tyrant will live most unpleasantly, and the king most pleasantly? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The broken-spirited, old, maternal grandfather was likewise subject to the little tyrant. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Courage and ambition, when not regulated by benevolence, are fit only to make a tyrant and public robber. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• No; but it can give varieties of pain, and prevent us from breaking our hearts with a single tyrant master-torture. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Beginning with the State, I replied, would you say that a city which is governed by a tyrant is free or enslaved? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• To put it briefly, democracy is afraid of the tyrant. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The republicans are fast making a tyrant of their own flesh and blood. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Then comparing our original city, which was under a king, and the city which is under a tyrant, how do they stand as to virtue? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In a well-ordered State there are only a few such, and these in time of war go out and become the mercenaries of a tyrant. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The tyrant is the third removed from the oligarch, and has therefore, not a shadow of his pleasure, but the shadow of a shadow only. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And the State which is enslaved under a tyrant is utterly incapable of acting voluntarily? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• That black-coated tyrant's niece--that quiet, delicate Miss Helstone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I think he said it was the worst tyrant of all. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And is not this the reason why of old love has been called a tyrant? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He made war against France, he said, because Napoleon was a tyrant, to free the French people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In Greece they were called _tyrants_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them--they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There is no need to suppose that he drew from life; or that his knowledge of tyrants is derived from a personal acquaintance with Dionysius. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• As they say, the persons who hate Irishmen most are Irishmen; so, assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• All princes who are disposed to become tyrants must probably approve of this opinion, and be willing to establish it; but is it not a dangerous one? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Like other tyrants, I carried my point. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• So dunnot turn faint-heart, and go to th' tyrants a-seeking work. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Tyrants were distinguished from kings, who claimed some sort of right, some family priority, for example, to rule. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• When, later on, the Persians began to subjugate the Greek cities of Asia Minor, they set up pro-Persian tyrants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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