Tyranny一词的含义可总结为以下两种：

1、暴政；苛政；专制政府

disorder or tyranny混乱或暴政

the tyrannies of Nazi rule 纳粹统治的暴行

2、对人们生活和行为方式的控制

the tyranny of the clock严苛的时间规定

the tyranny of arranged marriage 包办婚姻的压迫

Submit to the tyranny of inflexible office hours屈从于硬性规定的办公时间。

参考双语例句：

These days it seems we must all submit to the tyranny of the motor car

如今，似乎所有人都离不开汽车了

History will judge our generation by how actively we help to answer this question, particularly in a series of pivotal arenas, in what people call abusively frozen conflicts in and near my own region, in the many countries in the international community that remain under tyranny’s yoke and in the places like those Arab States that have achieved a new spring of freedom and are starting the difficult work of reforms.

历史将对我们这代人作出评判，其衡量标准是我们能多么积极地应对这个问题，特别是回答一系列关键领域内的问题，比如我国所在区域内或者区域附近人们称之为残暴的僵持冲突的问题；国际社会仍有许多国家处于暴政的奴役之下；像阿拉伯国家一样，有一些地方已经迎来了自由的新春天，正开始艰难的改革。

The Mission was informed by the opposition, particularly in Dar‘a, Homs, Hama and Idlib, that some of its members had taken up arms in response to the suffering of the Syrian people as a result of the regime’s oppression and tyranny; corruption, which affects all sectors of society; the use of torture by the security agencies; and human rights violations.

观察团从反对派那里获悉，尤其是在达拉、霍姆斯、哈马和伊德利卜，面对政权的压迫和暴虐，面对侵蚀社会所有部门的腐败，面对安保机构施行酷刑，面对侵犯人权的行径，反对派一些成员拿起武器，以减轻叙利亚人民的苦难。