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英语单词 sovereign
英美音标 ['sɔvrin]
中文释义 n.君主,统治
adj.至高无上的,君主的,独立自主的,完全的
vocab简明 Put simply, your sovereign is your king or queen. George III was the sovereign of Great Britain and her colonies — including the American ones. At least, he was until a little thing called the Revolutionary War upset everything.
vocab扩展 Sovereign as an adjective can be used to indicate the ultimate power of a state, whether a monarchy or not, as in "Peru exercised its sovereign rights to all minerals within its borders." A sovereign is also a British gold coin with a face value of one pound sterling (with the monarch's face on it). But don't sell it for a pound, because it's worth its weight in gold — quite literally — which is a lot more than a pound is worth.
真题原句 Generally there was a belief that the new nations should be sovereign and independent states, large enough to be economically viable and integrated by a commom set of laws.
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[ADJ 形容词](国家)具有独立主权的 A sovereign state or country is independent and not under the authority of any other country.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • Lithuania and Armenia signed a treaty in Vilnius recognising each other as independent sovereign states...

    立陶宛和亚美尼亚在维尔纽斯签订条约,承认彼此为独立主权国家。

  • The Russian Federation declared itself to be a sovereign republic.

    俄罗斯联邦宣布自己为主权独立的共和国。

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[ADJ 形容词](人、机构等)拥有最高统治权的 Sovereign is used to describe the person or institution that has the highest power in a country.
  • Sovereign power will continue to lie with the Supreme People's Assembly.

    最高统治权仍然掌握在最高人民会议手中。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]最高统治者;君主;元首 A sovereign is a king, queen, or other royal ruler of a country.
  • In March 1889, she became the first British sovereign to set foot on Spanish soil.

    1889 年 3 月,她成为第一位踏上西班牙领土的英国君主。

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