plutocracy
英 [plu?'t?kr?s?]
美[plu'tɑkr?si]
- n. 富豪統(tǒng)治，富豪統(tǒng)治集團(tuán)
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?plutocracies;
中文詞源
plutocracy 財閥統(tǒng)治pluto-,財富，-cracy,統(tǒng)治，詞源同democracy.
英文詞源
- plutocracy (n.)
- 1650s, from Greek ploutokratia "rule or power of the wealthy or of wealth," from ploutos "wealth" (see Pluto) + -kratia "rule" (see -cracy). Synonym plutarchy is slightly older (1640s). Pluto-democracy "plutocracy masquerading as democracy" is from 1895.
雙語例句
- 1. Financial, not moral, considerations will prevail in a plutocracy.
- 在富豪當(dāng)政的國家里，人們見利忘義。
來自辭典例句
- 2. The most prolific of the debunkers of the plutocracy was Gustavus Myers.
- 揭發(fā)富豪統(tǒng)治集團(tuán)的作家中,最多產(chǎn)的是古斯塔夫斯·邁爾斯.
來自辭典例句
- 3. If only millionaires can afford to run for office, we shall quickly become a plutocracy.
- 如果只有大富豪才負(fù)擔(dān)得起公職的競選, 我們將很快變成富豪政治.
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