empire
英 [ˈempaɪə(r)]
美 [ˈempaɪər]
n. 帝国; 大企业; 企业集团
复数:empires
Oxford 3000 / Collins.3 / BNC.2251 / COCA.4218
牛津词典
noun
- 帝国
a group of countries or states that are controlled by one ruler or government- the Roman empire
罗马帝国
- the Roman empire
- 大企业;企业集团
a group of commercial organizations controlled by one person or company- a business empire
大型企业集团
- a business empire
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 帝国
Anempireis a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country.- ...the Roman Empire.
罗马帝国
- ...the Roman Empire.
- N-COUNT 企业王国;企业集团
You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as anempire.- ...the big Mondadori publishing empire.
庞大的蒙达多利出版帝国
- ...the big Mondadori publishing empire.
英英释义
noun
- a group of countries under a single authority
- the British created a great empire
- a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
- a monarchy with an emperor as head of state
- the domain ruled by an emperor or empress
双语例句
- The Roman Empire was divided in the fourth century AD.
罗马帝国于公元4世纪分裂。 - The Roman Empire depended largely on auxiliaries for its defense.
罗马帝国在防务上很大程度依靠雇佣军。 - Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the midwest by gobbling up smaller banks.
俄亥俄州第一银行通过兼并一些小银行成为中西部地区的巨头。 - That country had absorbed some small states into her empire.
那个国家曾将几个小国合并到她的帝国中去。 - The ancient empire was crushed and humbled to the dust.
那老大帝国被打得落花流水,威望扫地。 - No one has the empire over the minds of men.
没有人对人们的思想有绝对的控制权。 - She published historical novels, as well as a non-fiction study of women in the British Empire
她出版了许多历史小说和一部有关英帝国女性的纪实性研究著作。 - Those caverns had been sunk in the swampy ground at great cost, for the security of the empire.
为了帝国的安全,那些地下室里花了巨大的代价在潮湿的土地上挖出来的。 - The French empire had expanded largely through military conquest.
法兰西帝国的扩张主要靠军事征服。 - The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
这位已故大亨的儿子们将坐在豪华的办公室里,目睹这个家族帝国崩溃前的痛苦挣扎。