Democracy
[dɪ'mɒkrəsɪ] or [də'mɑkrəsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives.
(noun.) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
费理斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
(n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.
(n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.
(n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.
編輯:兰尼
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Government by the people.[2]. Republic, representative government.[3]. [U. S.] Democrats, democratic party.
艾琳校對
解釋/意思:
n. a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people collectively and is administered by them or by officers appointed by them: the people esp. the common people in the United States the democratic party—also Democ′raty (Milt.).—n. Dem′ocrat one who adheres to or promotes democracy as a principle: a member of the democratic party in the United States who preserve carefully the local liberties of states and of individuals opposing national centralisation and supporting a wide franchise low tariff duties for the interests of the revenue rather than protection and a limited public expenditure.—adjs. Democrat′ic -al relating to democracy: insisting on equal rights and privileges for all.—adv. Democrat′ically.—adj. Democratifī′able capable of being made democratic.—v.t. Democratise′ to render democratic.—n. Democ′ratist a democrat.
格斯編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A mysterious country, bounded on the east by Richard Olney, on the west by Willie Bryan, on the north by Dave Hill and on the south by Bennie Pitchfork Tillman.
伯纳黛特校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He never seems to have made the mistake of confusing democracy with demolatry. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I have heard people maintain that: it makes no difference whether women want the ballot, or are fit for it, or can do any good with it,--this country is a democracy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For the object of democracy is not to imitate the rhythm of the stars but to harness political power to the nation's need. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- To put it briefly, democracy is afraid of the tyrant. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For the purposes of the Commission democracy is an inefficient weapon. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This, when assembled, is the largest and most powerful class in a democracy. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The revolt went deeper and democracy in politics was only an aspect of it. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The two elements in our criterion both point to democracy. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The suffragist who bases a claim on the so-called logic of democracy is making the poorest possible showing for a good cause. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- An autocracy would no doubt have been admissible as a fully self-governing democracy with a franchise limited to one person. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But it is a caricature of democracy to make it also the law of individual initiative. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Nor do we know if the methods of election used for the Soviets are any improvement upon the unsatisfactory methods in use in the Atlantic democracies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is characteristic of these primitive democracies that they worship Man and distrust men. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Athens, it must be understood, was by far the largest of all the Greek city democracies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It always seems curious to watch the satisfaction of some reform magazines when China or Turkey or Persia imitates the constitutional forms of Western democracies. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Some democracies (Athens and Miletus, _e. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There were in the Greek democracies parties and party leaders, but no regular government in office and no regular opposition. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Well, he said, have you never heard that forms of government differ; there are tyrannies, and there are democracies, and there are aristocracies? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The Western democracies, as they woke up to freedom, discovered themselves imperial, and were considerably embarrassed by the discovery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Jealous of all individuals, democracies have turned to machines. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Those portions of America where there are voting booths but no schools cannot possibly be described as democracies. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
整理:梅纳德