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

• When Emperor Wen first came to the throne, a general amnesty was proclaimed to the empire.
  文帝初立，大赦天下。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He started off with one small factory, and now he's the head of a huge industrial empire.
  他从一个小工场创业起家，现在成了一个大工业企业的老板。
• 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。
• The subject peoples of her empire were anxious for their own independence.
  她的帝国中被迫向她臣服的民族迫切渴望自身的独立。
• 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。
• During October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to disintegrate.
  在1918年10月间，奥匈帝国开始瓦解。