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

• During October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to disintegrate.
  在1918年10月间，奥匈帝国开始瓦解。
• 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。
• The French empire had expanded largely through military conquest.
  法兰西帝国的扩张主要靠军事征服。
• 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。
• The empire could not cohere as a legitimate whole.
  这个帝国无法凝聚成一个合法的整体。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。