confederacy

• n. 聯盟；聯邦；私黨

con-, 強調。-fed, 相信，信任，詞源同faith, confide.

confederacy (n.)

late 14c., from Anglo-French confederacie (Old French confederacie), from stem of Latin confoederatio, from confoederare (see confederate). Earliest in reference to leagues of classical Greek states (Aetolian, Achaean, etc.), later of the Netherlands. The word was used of the United States of America under (and in) the Articles of Confederation (1777-1788). In reference to the breakaway Confederate States of America (1861-1865) from 1861.

Confederacy now usually implies a looser or more temporary association than confederation, which is applied to a union of states organized on an intentionally permanent basis. [OED]

1. They've entered this new confederacy because the central government's been unable to control the collapsing economy.

由於中央政府無力控製逐漸崩潰的經濟，所以他們加入了這個新聯盟。

來自柯林斯例句

2. This bond of kin represented the real basis of the confederacy.

這種血緣親屬關係是聯盟的真實基礎。

來自辭典例句

3. Does the Confederacy mean nothing to you at all? "

難道南部聯盟對你就毫無意義?

來自飄（部分）

4. " Don't you go throwing the Confederacy in my face!

" 你犯不著用南部聯盟來壓我嘛!

來自飄（部分）

5. A man who fought for the Confederacy can't be all bad.

一個為南部聯盟戰鬥過的人是不會壞到哪裏去的.

來自飄（部分）