名词

1. 镇压;压制;控制
Repression is the use of force to restrict and control a society or other group of people.

2. (情感，尤指性欲的)压抑，控制
Repression of feelings, especially sexual ones, is a person's unwillingness to allow themselves to have natural feelings and desires.

1. the act of repressing
control by holding down

e.g. his goal was the repression of insolence

2. (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

3. a state of forcible subjugation

e.g. the long repression of Christian sects