Commonwealth
['kɒmənwelθ] or ['kɑmən'wɛlθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another.
(noun.) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico).
校對:米利森特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.
(n.) The whole body of people in a state; the public.
(n.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. State, realm, nation, republic, body politic, popular government, representative government.[2]. The public, the people, the community, body of the people.
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解釋/意思:
n. the common or public good: the government in a free state: the public or whole body of the people: a form of government in which the power rests with the people esp. that in England after the overthrow of Charles I.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites logically active but fortuitously efficient.
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例句/造句/用法:
- What Plato had heard or seen of Sparta was applied by him in a mistaken way to his ideal commonwealth. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But, if congenial to philosophy, it is apt to be dangerous to the commonwealth. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Such as they are, however, it seldom costs the sovereign or commonwealth any expense to prepare them for the field. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Every different order of citizens is bound to contribute to the support of the sovereign or commonwealth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The change of government in the time of the English Commonwealth set men thinking about first principles, and gave rise to many works of this class. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Of the Funds, or Sources, of Revenue, which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The funds, or sources, of revenue, which may peculiarly belong to the sovereign or commonwealth, must consist, either in stock, or in land. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There is, perhaps, but one set of men in the whole commonwealth to whom the bounty either was or could be essentially serviceable. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The fifth and last book treats of the revenue of the sovereign, or commonwealth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In a world where doing means marrying, and the commonwealth is one of hearts and hands, the same peril attends the condition. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Later the stems were baluster shape with a seal top, and at the time of the Commonwealth the stem became flat and perfectly plain. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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