anarchy

• n. 無政府狀態；混亂；無秩序

前綴an-, 沒有，無。詞根arch,統治，管理。

anarchy (n.)

1530s, from French anarchie or directly from Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhia "lack of a leader, the state of people without a government" (in Athens, used of the Year of Thirty Tyrants, 404 B.C., when there was no archon), noun of state from anarkhos "rulerless," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + arkhos "leader" (see archon).

Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you! [Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)]

1. He had been swept aside in the whirlwind of reform and anarchy.

在改革和無政府狀態交織的混亂風暴中，他被拋在了一邊，沒人理睬。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Economic anarchy scourged the post-war world.

經濟混亂使得戰後的世界陷入水深火熱之中。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The overthrow of the military regime was followed by a period of anarchy.

軍事統治政權被推翻以後，接著是一段時期的無政府狀態。

來自《權威詞典》

4. There would be anarchy if we had no police.

要是沒有警察,社會就會無法無天.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. If prices rise the country could slide into anarchy.

如果物價上漲,國家將有可能陷入混亂狀態.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》