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 empire ['empaiә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 帝国, 帝权

  1. The British Empire once covered large parts of the world.
    大英帝国曾经占有过世界上的大片地方。
  2. I am reading a book about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.
    我正在看一本关于罗马帝国兴衰的书。
  3. At its zenith the Roman Empire covered almost the whole of Europe.
    罗马帝国在全盛时期几乎占据了整个欧洲。


empire
[ noun ]
  1. the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised

    2. <noun.location>
  2. a group of countries under a single authority

    3. <noun.group>
    the British created a great empire
  3. a monarchy with an emperor as head of state

    4. <noun.group>
  4. a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

    5. <noun.group>
  5. an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple

    6. <noun.food>


Empire \Em"pire\, n. [F., fr. L. imperium a command,
sovereignty, dominion, empire, fr. imperare. See {Emperor};
cf. {Imperial}.]
1. Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion. ``The empire
of the sea.'' --Shak.

Over hell extend
His empire, and with iron scepter rule. --Milton.

2. The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries
under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely
of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom,
always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the
forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate
portions; as, the Austrian empire.

Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and
complicated government. --C. J. Smith.

3. Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule;
sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason. ``Under the
empire of facts.'' --M. Arnold.

Another force which, in the Middle Ages, shared with
chivalry the empire over the minds of men. --A. W.
Ward.

{Celestial empire}. See under {Celestial}.

{Empire City}, a common designation of the city of New York.


{Empire State}, a common designation of the State of New
York.

Syn: Sway; dominion; rule; control; reign; sovereignty;
government; kingdom; realm; state.

  1. On Sunday, he co-authored a piece alleging that Mr. Maxwell planned to fake his death and escape with millions siphoned from his empire.
  2. Jim Bakker, the television evangelist who lost his PTL empire in a sex scandal, was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $500,000 Tuesday for defrauding his followers for his own enrichment.
  3. Meanwhile, Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., whose family's business empire includes the San Francisco 49ers, is spending his time during the strike trying to buy a controlling interest in Zayre Corp.
  4. "I see it as a friendly arm around the shoulder of America. Saying how we in England used to have an empire and it got frittered away.
  5. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch plans to buy Triangle Publications Inc. for $3 billion, adding TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form and Seventeen magazine to his communications empire.
  6. MR MICHAEL Stoney, 42, operated close to centre of the Maxwell empire.
  7. When leaders must decide between restoring the competitiveness of the economy and maintaining their international military authority, they opt to preserve the empire.
  8. Such disclosures are hardly crushing blows to either the shuttle or the rest of Mr. Trump's vast empire.
  9. Ronald Reagan, who by the way deplored the MAD doctrine, was correct in calling the vast system controlled by the CPSU an "evil empire."
  10. QUEBECOR, the holding company for the Peladeau family's publishing, printing and forest products empire, unveiled third-quarter profit of CDollars 16.1m (Dollars 12.9m) or 27 cents a share, up from CDollars 6.1m or 13 cents a year earlier.
  11. David Thomson, the publicity-shy heir to the Thomson media empire, is characteristically silent on why he cashed in about $95 million worth of stock in his family's flagship companies.
  12. Thus was born a business empire: Beegotten Creations, a whimsical little company that aims to provide novelty items to every expectant relative.
  13. Though the family-controlled Wallenberg interests have made up Scandinavia's most powerful industrial empire for decades, the group's labyrinthine ownership structure dissuaded investment from abroad.
  14. Or for Jay Pritzker, chairman and founder of the Hyatt Corp. hotel empire.
  15. If they continue to view politics as about little more than carving up the spoils, they may soon have no spoils left to carve. A foreign empire could be relatively centralised.
  16. He said no, and he said that within the walls of the Kremlin, next to the czar's gun, right in the heart of that "evil empire."
  17. 'Somehow we haven't woken up to the end of empire,' he says.
  18. His far-flung communist empire virtually is gone.
  19. Bond's empire is saddled with debts of nearly $6 billion and the group of companies is involved in several court actions.
  20. Eastern boss Frank Lorenzo is a longtime Drexel client who used its renowned prowess in high-yield, high-risk junk-bond market to help him finance his Texas Air Corp. airline empire.
  21. Faster, not slower, reform is the best path to stability in a crumbling empire.
  22. James D. Robinson III, who runs American Express Co., lately has devoted a lot of time to a single corner of his vast and far-flung travel and financial-services empire: Shearson Lehman Bros.
  23. The collapse of East Germany and its merger with West Germany on Oct. 3 did nothing to allay suspicions that Schalck retained control of a corrupt financial empire.
  24. Leona Helmsley, the persnickety hotel queen quoted as saying "only the little people pay taxes," has been convicted of evading $1.2 million in income tax by charging personal expenses to her business empire.
  25. Aside from credit risks, Westerners might consider the wisdom of helping maintain and expand the Soviet empire.
  26. But some members of Congress might balk at that idea as "empire building," said Rep. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a congressional expert on the embassy debacle.
  27. Bobby Joe is a biblical scholar totally lacking in the star quality his father used to turn his little church into a television empire.
  28. If the payment is not made by then, bondholders could foreclose on the property, which could trigger defaults on other parts of Mr. Trump's vast empire.
  29. It was this fatal intertwining of the two sides of his empire that was to lead to its collapse. Unknown to the outside world, the private companies had accumulated debts of some Pounds 1bn in 1991.
  30. Gallo and his brother, Ernest, control the Gallo empire, a private company that annually records more than $1 billion in sales.
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