tyranny 的意思是专制统治，暴政。In the heated gun-ownership debate, some people don't realize that the 2nd Amendment isn't about sport shooting or even self-defense, it was designed to prevent government tyranny. 在有关拥枪问题的激烈辩论中，有些人没有意识到美国第二修正案不是为了保护狩猎甚至自卫的权利，而是为了防止政府的暴政。

 

President Trump's national security adviser John Bolton describes the Venezuelan left-wing government of Nicolas Maduro as part of "the troika of tyranny" in the Americas, alongside Cuba and Nicaragua. 特朗普总统的国家安全顾问博尔顿将委内瑞拉的马杜罗左翼政权形容为美洲与古巴和尼加拉瓜“并驾齐驱的三个暴政”之一。