empire

noun

1. 帝国
   a group of countries or states that are controlled by one ruler or government
   1. the Roman empire
      罗马帝国
2. 大企业；企业集团
   a group of commercial organizations controlled by one person or company
   1. a business empire
      大型企业集团

1. N-COUNT 帝国
   An empire is a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country.
   1. ...the Roman Empire.
      罗马帝国
2. N-COUNT 企业王国;企业集团
   You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as an empire .
   1. ...the big Mondadori publishing empire.
      庞大的蒙达多利出版帝国

1. The Roman Empire was divided in the fourth century AD.
   罗马帝国于公元4世纪分裂。
2. The Roman Empire was overrun by Nordic barbarians.
   罗马帝国被日耳曼的野蛮人推翻了。
3. The empire could not cohere as a legitimate whole.
   这个帝国无法凝聚成一个合法的整体。
4. His business empire collapsed under a massive burden of debt
   他的商业帝国无力承担沉重的债务负担而垮掉了。
5. He eventually constructed a business empire which ran to Thailand and Singapore
   他最终构筑起了一个延伸至泰国和新加坡的商业帝国。
6. He now controls the largest retail development empire in southern California
   他现在掌管着加州南部最大的零售发展企业。
7. The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
   这位已故大亨的儿子们将坐在豪华的办公室里，目睹这个家族帝国崩溃前的痛苦挣扎。
8. During October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to disintegrate.
   在1918年10月间，奥匈帝国开始瓦解。
9. Many investors must be hoping that he will be dethroned, his publishing empire dismembered.
   众多投资者此时一定希望他能被撵下台，他的出版帝国四分五裂。
10. She felt herself to be part of a large business empire
    她觉得自己成了一个庞大的商业帝国中的一分子。
11. Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the midwest by gobbling up smaller banks.
    俄亥俄州第一银行通过兼并一些小银行成为中西部地区的巨头。
12. The French empire had expanded largely through military conquest.
    法兰西帝国的扩张主要靠军事征服。
13. The new Turkish republic he helped to build emerged from the ruins of a great empire
    他帮助建立起的新土耳其共和国是从一个伟大帝国的废墟上发展起来的。
14. Our lives have straddled a period of greater change than perhaps any since the end of the Roman Empire
    我们生活的这个时期所经历的变革可能是罗马帝国灭亡以来最巨大的。
15. The subject peoples of her empire were anxious for their own independence.
    她的帝国中被迫向她臣服的民族迫切渴望自身的独立。
16. His widow has taken over the running of his empire, including six London theatres
    他的遗孀已接手管理他创下的帝国，其中包括6家伦敦剧院。
17. the twilight years of the Habsburg empire.
    哈布斯堡帝国的衰落时期
18. She published historical novels, as well as a non-fiction study of women in the British Empire
    她出版了许多历史小说和一部有关英帝国女性的纪实性研究著作。
19. You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.
    你靠从那些不卖房就得挨饿的可怜人手里买下房子后建立起了庞大的房产帝国。
20. The British Empire flourished in the 19th century.
    英帝国在19世纪曾昌盛一时。
21. The ancient empire was crushed and humbled to the dust.
    那老大帝国被打得落花流水，威望扫地。
22. When Emperor Wen first came to the throne, a general amnesty was proclaimed to the empire.
    文帝初立，大赦天下。
23. He started off with one small factory, and now he's the head of a huge industrial empire.
    他从一个小工场创业起家，现在成了一个大工业企业的老板。
24. No one has the empire over the minds of men.
    没有人对人们的思想有绝对的控制权。
25. Those caverns had been sunk in the swampy ground at great cost, for the security of the empire.
    为了帝国的安全，那些地下室里花了巨大的代价在潮湿的土地上挖出来的。
26. The Tao prevails under heaven ( or in the empire). or good government prevails.
    天下有道。
27. The Roman Empire depended largely on auxiliaries for its defense.
    罗马帝国在防务上很大程度依靠雇佣军。
28. The ancient Romans extended their empire into asia.
    古罗马人把罗马帝国扩张到亚洲境内。
29. That country had absorbed some small states into her empire.
    那个国家曾将几个小国合并到她的帝国中去。

noun

1. a group of countries under a single authority
   1. the British created a great empire

2. a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

   Synonym:    conglomerate

3. a monarchy with an emperor as head of state

4. the domain ruled by an emperor or empress

   Synonym:    imperium