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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- leading
- prominent
- political
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- imprison
- jail
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘differing in opinion or character’): from Latin dissident- ‘sitting apart, disagreeing’, from dis- ‘apart’ + sedere ‘sit’.