| 释义 |
self-ˈgovernment
[self- 1 a.]
1. Self-control, self-command. Now rare.
1734Watts Reliq. Juv. (1789) 201 Self-government is an eternal duty. 1736Butler Anal. i. iii. 47 His natural Faculty of Self-Government impaired by Habits of Indulgence. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxviii, He had but sense and self-government enough left to prevent his stabbing to the heart the audacious villain. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer xi. 128 Intensity of Achilles... Any degree of self-government is a wonder, when exercised over such volcanic forces.
2. Administration by a people or state of its own affairs without external direction or interference.
1798Jefferson in Lieber Civil Lib. (1853) 205 note, The residuary rights are reserved to their (the American States) own self-government. 1870J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Glean. Ser. ii. 4 The towns gained charters of self-government. 1886Dicey Eng. Case agst. Home Rule ii. 22 Home Rule does not mean Local Self-Government. |