empire

英 [ˈempaɪə(r)]

美 [ˈempaɪər]

n.  帝国; 大企业; 企业集团

复数：empires　

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牛津词典

noun

• 帝国
  a group of countries or states that are controlled by one ruler or government
  1. the Roman empire
     罗马帝国
• 大企业；企业集团
  a group of commercial organizations controlled by one person or company
  1. a business empire
     大型企业集团

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.
  1. ...the Roman Empire.
     罗马帝国
• N-COUNT 企业王国;企业集团
  You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as anempire.
  1. ...the big Mondadori publishing empire.
     庞大的蒙达多利出版帝国

英英释义

noun

• a group of countries under a single authority
  1. the British created a great empire
• a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
  Synonym:conglomerate
• a monarchy with an emperor as head of state
• the domain ruled by an emperor or empress
  Synonym:imperium

双语例句

• She felt herself to be part of a large business empire
  她觉得自己成了一个庞大的商业帝国中的一分子。
• The Roman Empire was overrun by Nordic barbarians.
  罗马帝国被日耳曼的野蛮人推翻了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Our lives have straddled a period of greater change than perhaps any since the end of the Roman Empire
  我们生活的这个时期所经历的变革可能是罗马帝国灭亡以来最巨大的。
• During October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to disintegrate.
  在1918年10月间，奥匈帝国开始瓦解。
• The ancient Romans extended their empire into asia.
  古罗马人把罗马帝国扩张到亚洲境内。
• The new Turkish republic he helped to build emerged from the ruins of a great empire
  他帮助建立起的新土耳其共和国是从一个伟大帝国的废墟上发展起来的。
• 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。
• When Emperor Wen first came to the throne, a general amnesty was proclaimed to the empire.
  文帝初立，大赦天下。