Confederacy
[kən'fed(ə)rəsɪ] or [kən'fɛdərəsi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
(n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
(n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
編輯:卡罗尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Confederation (especially of independent states), federation, league, coalition, alliance, union, federal compact.
汉弗莱手打
例句/造句/用法:
- But their enterprise was delayed by the absence of more than one main limb of the confederacy. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Every energy, therefore, was put forth by the Confederacy to protect and maintain their capital. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- If Britain were driven into war with one confederacy, it would assure the supremacy of the other confederacy, whether they joined in the war or not. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- This would cut the Confederacy in two again, as our gaining possession of the Mississippi River had done before. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Lee, with the capital of the Confederacy, was the main end to which all were working. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Wilson's raid resulted in the capture of the fugitive president of the defunct confederacy before he got out of the country. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- When it was evacuated (as we shall see further on), the Confederacy at once began to crumble and fade away. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Some of his generals have said so in their writings since the downfall of the Confederacy. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The fate of the Confederacy was sealed when Vicksburg fell. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This was the last effort on the part of the Confederacy to raise the siege of Vicksburg. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He had made his little country into the leading state in a great Gr?co-Macedonian confederacy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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