Presidency
['prezɪd(ə)nsɪ] or ['prɛzɪdənsi]
解释:
(noun.) the office and function of president; 'Andrew Jackson expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time'.
(noun.) the tenure of a president; 'things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration'.
贝妮塔整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.
(n.) The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency.
(n.) The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.
(n.) One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.
整理:凯瑟琳
娱乐性解释：
n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
科妮莉亚手打
例句:
- Four years later the Republican party was successful in electing its candidate to the Presidency. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Washington was inaugurated to the presidency at New York in 1789. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- My son, sir, is at this minute chief magistrate of Ramgunge in the Presidency of Bengal, and touching his four thousand rupees per mensem. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- This circumstance gave rise to exceedingly unfair and unjust criticisms of him when he became a candidate for the Presidency. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The efforts to kill off politically the two successful generals, made them both candidates for the Presidency. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- You can't offer him the Presidency of the Council; that is reserved for Poodle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But the fact remains that the Roosevelt régime gave a new prestige to the Presidency by effecting through it the greatest release of political invention in a generation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- He says so himself, virtually, in his answer to the notice of his nomination to the Confederate presidency. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Whatever General Pierce's qualifications may have been for the Presidency, he was a gentleman and a man of courage. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Jos's friends were all from the three presidencies, and his new house was in the comfortable Anglo-Indian district of which Moira Place is the centre. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
校对:斯坦顿