keep someone down

Related to word: keep

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Definition

  1. to restrict a person or group's power or liberty

    壓抑;壓服;鎮壓某人

    • Social inequality often keeps people at the bottom from rising up.

      社會不平等常常使底層的人無法翻身。

    • Such policies are merely used to keep certain communities down.

      這些政策僅僅是用來壓制某些群體。

    • He was unwilling to accept unequal treatment, which kept his boss on edge.

      他不願意接受不平等待遇,這讓他的老闆感到不安。