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单词 conquest
释义
conquest
(kɒŋkwest )
Word forms: conquests
1. uncountable noun
Conquest is the act of conquering a country or group of people.
He had led the conquest of southern Poland in 1939. [+ of]
After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
Jerusalem has seen endless conquests and occupations.
Synonyms: takeover, coup, acquisition, invasion  
2. countable noun [usually plural]
Conquests are lands that have been conquered in war.
He had realized that Britain could not have peace unless she returned at least some of her former conquests.
3. countable noun [usually poss NOUN]
If someone makes a conquest, they succeed in attracting and usually sleeping with another person. You usually use conquest when you want to indicate that this relationship is not important to the person concerned.
Despite his conquests, he remains lonely and isolated.
...men who boast about their sexual conquests to all their friends.
Synonyms: seduction  
4. countable noun [oft poss NOUN]
You can refer to the person that someone has succeeded in attracting as their conquest.
Pushkin was a womaniser whose conquests included everyone from prostitutes to princesses.
5. singular noun
The conquest of something such as a problem is success in ending it or dealing with it.
The conquest of inflation has been the Government's overriding economic priority for nearly 15 years. [+ of]
...the conquest of cancer.
Collocations:
territorial conquest
Today, annexation and territorial conquest are regarded as intolerable scourges from darker times.
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While there had been many patches and some new content added, features such as player-built roads and fortifications, territorial conquest, and mounts were not implemented.
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He used it as an opportunity to announce the territorial conquest by the design of the new coins.
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These writings on columns, stelae and walls throw light on the royal lineages, religious edicts, territorial conquests and internal organization of the kingdom.
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war of conquest
As the war progressed however it became a war of conquest.
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Indeed, the region was quite prosperous during that period, past the recovery from the war of conquest.
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He presented missions as a war of conquest and not as a mere wrecking expedition.
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These three centuries are characterized by acts of war of conquest times and the historical penumbra colonial times.
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Via thought helmets the invaders extract information from them about their fellow earthlings to further the war of conquest.
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