单词 | satrap |
释义 | sa·trap ![]() n. 1. A governor of a province in ancient Persia. 2. A ruler. 3. A subordinate bureaucrat or official: "The satraps of Capitol Hill will not sit idly by" (David Nyhan). 4. Usage Problem A satrapy. [Middle English satrape, from Old French, from Latin satrapēs, from Greek, from Old Persian khshathrapāvā, protector of the province : khshathra-, realm, province + pāvā, protector; see pā- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] Usage Note: In its primary and figurative senses, satrap refers to a person. Sometimes the word is used to refer to the geographical location or organization under the control of a satrap, as in this quotation from a 2014 editorial in Forbes magazine:"Plunging oil prices are hammering Moscow far more than are the tepid, half-hearted sanctions imposed by the West after Putin's ... machinations to effectively make Ukraine a Russian satrap." The correct term for this sense, however, is satrapy, and most writers maintain this distinction. |
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