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
- 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。 - Many investors must be hoping that he will be dethroned, his publishing empire dismembered.
众多投资者此时一定希望他能被撵下台,他的出版帝国四分五裂。 - 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。 - During October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to disintegrate.
在1918年10月间,奥匈帝国开始瓦解。 - 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。 - 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 Roman Empire was divided in the fourth century AD.
罗马帝国于公元4世纪分裂。 - The Roman Empire was overrun by Nordic barbarians.
罗马帝国被日耳曼的野蛮人推翻了。 - You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.
你靠从那些不卖房就得挨饿的可怜人手里买下房子后建立起了庞大的房产帝国。 - His widow has taken over the running of his empire, including six London theatres
他的遗孀已接手管理他创下的帝国,其中包括6家伦敦剧院。