Empire
['empaɪə] or ['ɛmpaɪr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple.
(noun.) a group of countries under a single authority; 'the British created a great empire'.
(noun.) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state.
(noun.) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised.
吉恩編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.
(n.) The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.
(n.) Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.
校對:迈拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Sovereignty, supremacy, dominion, absolute authority, supreme dominion, imperial power.[2]. Rule, sway, command, control, government.
錄入:内德
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Dominion, sovereignty, rule, sway, kingdom, realm
ANT:Independence, insurrection, anarchy
海尔格校對
解釋/意思:
n. supreme control or dominion: the territory under the dominion of an emperor.
整理:朱莉安娜
例句/造句/用法:
- The new empires did not even pretend to be a continuation of the world empire of Rome. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Oh, let us hope, when the Greek Empire is reconstructed, we will have a new Pindar, a new Sophocles, a new Plato. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It reached out far beyond the utmost limits of the empire, into Armenia, Persia, Abyssinia, Ireland, Germany, India, and Turkestan. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Over many parts of Europe a sort of legendary overlordship of the Hellenic Eastern Empire held its place in men's minds. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- India is still the empire of the Great Mogul, but the Great Mogul has been replaced by the crowned republic of Great Britain. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She saw the Israelitish empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The empire of the Great King enters upon a period of decay. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His ambition was to restore the empire of Jengis Khan as he conceived it, a project in which he completely failed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He summoned an assembly or diet of the empire at Worms on the Rhine. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With Peter the Great (1682-1725) the empire of Muscovy broke away from her Tartar traditions and entered the sphere of French attraction. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He sees no hope of happiness or peace for mankind until all nations of the earth are comprehended in a single empire. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The Holy Roman Empire struggled on indeed to the days of Napoleon, but as an invalid and dying thing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- This use of the word empire was evidently a different one from its former universal significance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They wanted not safety, but triumph, not world welfare, but world empire. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The new empires did not even pretend to be a continuation of the world empire of Rome. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is idle to accuse him of leaving education alone, because the idea that empires must be cemented by education was still foreign to human thought. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A small band of alien herdsmen, says Sir Mark Sykes, wandering unchecked through crusades and counter-crusades, principalities, empires, and states. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's _Ruins of Empires_. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Circumstances are sometimes too strong for the greatest soul, and that genius which should have created empires dies in obscurity. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She measures time, not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise, and prosper and crumble to ruin. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Certain differences between the great empires of the East and West were all in favour of the stability of the former. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The first of all known empires was that founded by the high priest of the god of the Sumerian city of Erech. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- For a brief time under Odenathus, and then under his widow Zenobia, Palmyra was a considerable state, wedged between the two empires. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This empire extended eastward to Kashgar, and it must have seemed one of the most progressive and hopeful empires of the time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sometimes all India was a patchwork quilt of states; sometimes such empires as that of the Guptas prevailed over great areas. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was a quite typical instance of that silly firmness which shatters empires. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The empire of Darius I was larger than any one of the preceding empires whose growth we have traced. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- By such treasons against their subjects, empires destroy themselves. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
手打:威尔