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Empire Roman Existed Group Countries Time N Count 可数名词

英语单词 empire
英美音标 英 ['empaɪə(r)] 美 ['empaɪər]
中文释义 n.帝国;大企业;帝权
英语例句 (1) He is the builder of the great empire.
(2) The Roman Empire existed for several centuries.
(3) Empire Qin is found in B.C. 221.
(4) His business empire was truly vast.
(5) He started off with one small factory, and now he's the head of an oil empire.
中文例句 (1) 他是大帝国的创立者。
(2) 罗马帝国存在了几百年。
(3) 秦帝国建于公元前221年。
(4) 他的企业规模极大.
(5) 他开始只经营一家小工厂,如今已成为一个石油大企业的头儿。
vocabulary简明 An empire is a group of countries or territories that are under the control of a single entity but it can be used figuratively too. She rules her cosmetics empire well, with a solid knowledge of lipsticks, eye shadows, and more.
vocabulary扩展 Have you ever heard the phrase, “The sun never sets on the British Empire?” This came about because during the 1800s countries in every time zone around the globe were ruled by England, and it was always daytime in one of them. Although other empires have existed back through time to the original Roman Empire, perhaps the most well-known empire today comes from the popular Star Wars films in which the rebels fight Darth Vader and his evil Empire.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]帝国 An empire is 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

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]企业王国;企业集团 You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as an empire .
  [with supp]
  • ...the big Mondadori publishing empire.

    庞大的蒙达多利出版帝国

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