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 conquest ['kɑŋkwɛst]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 战胜, 征服, 战利品

[法] 征服, 赢得, 获得


  1. They succeeded in the conquest of the city.
    他们成功地征服了这座城市。
  2. The Normans ruled England by right of conquest.
    诺曼人征服了英格兰成了统治者。
  3. Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces.
    侵略外国军队对一个国家或其边境的侵略、征服和控制


conquest
[ noun ]
  1. the act of conquering

    2. <noun.act>
  2. success in mastering something difficult

    3. <noun.act>
    the conquest of space
  3. an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

    4. <noun.act>


Conquest \Con"quest\, n. [OF. conquest, conqueste, F.
conqu[^e]te, LL. conquistum, conquista, prop. p. p. from L.
conquirere. See {Conquer}.]
1. The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force;
the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force,
whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation;
victory.

In joys of conquest he resigns his breath.
--Addison.

Three years sufficed for the conquest of the
country. --Prescott.

2. That which is conquered; possession gained by force,
physical or moral.

Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
--Shak.

3. (Feudal Law) The acquiring of property by other means than
by inheritance; acquisition. --Blackstone.

4. The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle;
as, the conquest of liberty or peace.

{The Conquest} (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by
William of Normandy in 1066. The {Norman Conquest}.

Syn: Victory; triumph; mastery; reduction; subjugation;
subjection.

  1. These letters narrate his conquest and command of his subject: a 44-year-old English lady novelist (a mix of Iris Murdoch and Doris Lessing) whom he's been studying and lecturing on for a dozen years.
  2. The Incas were the most powerful group in the area at the time of the Spanish conquest in the 1530s.
  3. Yet Saddam and his regime survive a year later to torment the president who denied his dream of conquest.
  4. As the Iraqi conquest of Kuwait entered its 13th day today, the fate of the Americans continued to be a matter of utmost concern to the Bush administration.
  5. Mohammed's pre-eminence was attained, not so much by winning the hearts and minds of peoples with love and persuasion, but by conquest of the sword.
  6. All the members of our expedition knew it," said Plaisted, who led a group of nine do-it-yourself snowmobile explorers to the pole in April 1968 in the first "indisputable" conquest by surface.
  7. The brutal conquest of Mexico and the subsequent annihilation (through disease) of most of the indigenous population, could hardly be described as a 'meeting'.
  8. He pleaded unsuccessfully to the now defunct League of Nations against the 1935-36 conquest of his country by Italy.
  9. The Russians completed their conquest of the region in 1873.
  10. The Real del Monte y Pachuca silver and gold mines, which the Aztecs worked before the Spanish conquest, have been sold.
  11. Turkey shut down the Iraqis' vital oil outlet to the Mediterranean, honoring a U.N. trade embargo ordered to punish Iraq for last week's lightning conquest of Kuwait.
  12. The figure is no larger than a a man's thumb. Small wonder that, down the centuries since the Spanish conquest four hundred years ago, graves such as the Lord of Sipan's, with their exquisite contents, have fallen prey to looters.
  13. About 500 Americans have quietly slipped out of Kuwait since the Iraqi conquest of that country, circumventing an Iraqi attempt to prevent Westerners from leaving, the State Department said Monday.
  14. Partial military conquest of Irish kings establishes rule of English crown. Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries see 'plantation' of Ireland by 75,000 British colonists 1649 Oliver Cromwell leads army to suppress Catholic revolt in Ireland.
  15. Like the Sandinistas now, Nazi Germany claimed it supported peace, while working feverishly for war and conquest.
  16. It is simply a matter of will, and in this the Saudis above all should heed the lesson of Rukn al-Din, an Ismaili chieftain who failed to stem the Mongol conquest, because he could not summon enough faith in his impressive power to resist.
  17. Their theme is the conquest of politics by philosophy.
  18. Besides, the conquest of Poland had been a demonstration of incredible military force.
  19. "Nineteen sixty-eight was the beginning of the media's conquest of French politics and life." Young people realized that all they needed was not a place in the French Cabinet to be effective but two minutes on the evening news.
  20. "It's conquest marketing," says Mr. Rapp.
  21. "The Spanish conquest must be repudiated.
  22. In parallel, he added, the government plans to negotiate reform of Portugal's Marxist-oriented constitution, inherited from the 1974 revolution and enshrining state ownership of enterprises as "an irreversible conquest of the working classes."
  23. For her, Iraq's quick conquest of neighboring Kuwait proved that Gulf states needed more of their own nationals in their armies.
  24. The decision also was eased by the evacuation of 90% of the Golan's 100,000 or so mostly Druze inhabitants after Israeli conquest.
  25. The first time was after the Israeli conquest of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war.
  26. The papers, called "facilitating documents" rather than visas, allow entrance to Iraq and its "governorate of Kuwait." Egypt has led Arab opposition to the Iraqi conquest, and strongly rejects Baghdad's annexation of its small neighbor.
  27. But with world attention riveted on the United Nations and the precarious pressure campaign to force Iraq to relinquish its conquest of Kuwait, Shevardnadze has given President Bush all the support he could hope to have - and then some.
  28. More and more regimes have concluded that power cannot be enhanced by territorial conquest and oppressive control of the populace.
  29. Only under the pressure of conquest and domination did they make the effort to learn the languages of other civilizations, and, in self-defense, to try to understand the ideas and ways of the current rulers of the world.
  30. In any event, a Japanese conquest of U.S. banking isn't a sure thing.
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