oligarchy

• n. 寡頭政治

oligo-,寡，少，-archy,統治，治理，詞源同anarchy.

oligarchy (n.)

1570s, from Middle French oligarchie (14c.), from Greek oligarkhia "government by the few," from stem of oligos "few, small, little" (see oligo-) + arkhein "to rule" (see archon).

1. Athens was suffering under the rule of an oligarchy that had no concern for the people's welfare.

雅典當時飽受寡頭集團的統治，他們對人民的福祉毫不關心。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.

寡頭政體的唯一可靠基礎是集體主義。

來自辭典例句

3. But the landed oligarchy had stunted the country's democratic development for generations.

但是好幾代以來土地寡頭的統治阻礙了這個國家民主的發展.

來自辭典例句

4. It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.

他們早已認識到,寡頭政體的唯一可靠基礎是集體主義.

來自英漢文學

5. Insecure and fearful of its own people, the oligarchy preserves itself through tyranny.

由於擔心和害怕自己的人民, 統治集團隻能靠實行暴政來維護其統治.

來自辭典例句