Despot
['despɒt] or ['dɛspɑt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
(n.) One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
錄入:丽贝卡
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Autocrat, dictator, tyrant, absolute sovereign, absolute ruler.
本杰明錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Tyrant, autocrat
ANT:Slave, subject
手打:托德
解釋/意思:
n. one invested with absolute power: a tyrant.—n. Des′potat a territory governed by a despot.—adjs. Despot′ic -al pertaining to or like a despot: having absolute power: tyrannical.—adv. Despot′ically.—ns. Despot′icalness Des′potism absolute power: tyranny; Despotoc′racy government by a despot.
黛朵錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- It prefers the rule of its fri ends to the rule of a despot. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- If I were to meet that most unparalleled despot in the streets to-morrow, I would fell him like a rotten tree! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The Emperor of Morocco is a soulless despot, and the great officers under him are despots on a smaller scale. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- My mother never could endure him, nor I; but he obtained an entire ascendency over my father; and this man was the absolute despot of the estate. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Paul: never, in others, a more waspish little despot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- O, my dear brethren and fellow-sojourners in Vanity Fair, which among you does not know and suffer under such benevolent despots? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The Emperor of Morocco is a soulless despot, and the great officers under him are despots on a smaller scale. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
手打:兰斯洛特