a person who strongly disagrees with and criticizes their government, especially in a country where this kind of action is dangerous持不同政见者- left-wing dissidents左翼持不同政见者
- regimes that murder political opponents and imprison dissidents谋杀政治对手并监禁异见人士的政权
- Dissidents were often imprisoned by the security police.持不同政见者常被安全警察关进监狱。
Topics Opinion and argumentc2, Politicsc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- leading
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verb + dissidentSee full entry Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘differing in opinion or character’): from Latin dissident- ‘sitting apart, disagreeing’, from dis- ‘apart’ + sedere ‘sit’.