| 单词 | empire |
| 释义 | empire (empaɪəʳ ) Word forms: empires 1. countable noun An empire is a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country. ...the Roman Empire. 2. countable noun You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as an empire. ...the big Mondadori publishing empire. Quotations: All empire is no more than power in trustAbsalom and Achitophel Collocations: business empire Last week it emerged that parts of his business empire had shut up shop and as many as 2,000 staff had been sent home. Times,Sunday Times I need to concentrate on my business empire. The Sun With millions in the bank and a business empire growing by the day, she can say that again. The Sun By working 19 hours a day, he managed to turn it into a 7.5million business empire. The Sun However, the athlete, who has a business empire and has spoken of a possible career in politics, decided he needed fresh challenges. Times, Sunday Times This criminal empire builder showed plenty of promise. The Sun And his freedom sparks fears he may now try to rebuild his criminal empire on the outside. The Sun After weeks of audio and video surveillance officers found the legitimate business was a front for a vast criminal empire. Times, Sunday Times His hedonistic lifestyle ended yesterday in a deal which saw him 'cleaned out' financially as a court ordered the confiscation of the proceeds of his criminal empire. Times, Sunday Times More importantly, she wants to make sure she inherits his criminal empire. Times, Sunday Times It came from the boss of a rival entertainment empire, based less than a mile away. Times, Sunday Times An optional wireless bridge allows you to 'talk' to gadgets in far-flung corners of your entertainment empire that would otherwise be out of reach. Times, Sunday Times Instead, they would create a new entertainment empire spanning over film productions, artist management, concert production, publishing and both digital and traditional music industries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it was 1990 and the evil empire had lost its nerve. Times, Sunday Times After all, when you're running an evil empire you never know when a flying elephant might come in handy. Times, Sunday Times Then there are others who see it as an evil empire, and boycott it. Times, Sunday Times The pact created the evil empire, but also doomed it. Times,Sunday Times You helped topple the evil empire. Times, Sunday Times The post at her fashion empire entails grafting unpaid for eight hours, five days a week. The Sun I quizzed him about his love life, his street style and his burgeoning fashion empire. Times, Sunday Times Their vision of what constituted a fashion empire also differed from the view held by the financial markets. Times, Sunday Times The fashion empire he now runs started on his kitchen table. Times, Sunday Times But soon the brand grew into a fashion empire powered by a collective fantasy of the perfect lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times The assets of his financial empire were frozen. Houston Chronicle With each click on its search engine, its financial empire grows stronger. Times, Sunday Times Standing by with great canvas duffel bags to catch the gush of cash from their, yes, financial empire. Globe and Mail In the meantime he traveled the world expanding his financial empire. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the game progresses, each player's financial empire grows to a larger number of cities which provide income each turn. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No surprise, then, that there are barely enough hours in the day to maintain the tentacles of his global empire. Times, Sunday Times This would let him maintain his position as head of the global empire that he built up over four decades. Times, Sunday Times It must feel more like freedom now, as she sits atop a global empire, directs her art foundation and basks in positive reviews. Times, Sunday Times The battle for global empire and the end of the ancient world 527pp. The Times Literary Supplement The actors have apparently offered to take a 30 per cent pay cut in exchange for a share of the cartoon's multibilliondollar global empire. Times, Sunday Times In the interim, that would allow him to launch his own media empire, he said. Times,Sunday Times It spawned a media empire that included an anime series and movies. The Sun He wants to create a digital media empire dedicated solely to promoting electronic dance music. Times, Sunday Times Her media empire has shown itself to be capable of seemingly endless expansion. Times, Sunday Times What he has achieved there, in an unpaid post, may be of more lasting significance than any media empire bought or sold. Times, Sunday Times What the empire was not was a unitary nation-state or a mighty empire in the 19th-century manner. Times, Sunday Times Both oracles replied that if he did so, he would most certainly destroy a mighty empire. The Times Literary Supplement Could war or invasion have proved the undoing of this once mighty empire? Times, Sunday Times He had indeed destroyed a mighty empire: his own. The Times Literary Supplement Both were once mighty empires. Times, Sunday Times In 2017-18 their online retail empire made a record loss of £48.3m alongside record sales. Times,Sunday Times The retail empire posted sales of 590.3m and operating profits of 48.5m this year, an impressive feat considering its humble origins. Times, Sunday Times The cash deal for their retail empire, the largest transaction in the sector for nearly a decade, should enable them to surge ahead in the pantheon of wealthy northeasterners. Times, Sunday Times Yesterday, he signed the deal that sells off the family's global retail empire built up over 57 years. Times, Sunday Times He has also rescued several brands and fashion chains that might have disappeared, adding them to his retail empire. Times, Sunday Times The billionaire, 91, may have stepped back from day-to-day duties, but his sprawling empire continues to expand. Times, Sunday Times So varied was this sprawling empire, so lacking in unifying principles, that perhaps it wasn't even an empire at all. The Times Literary Supplement It follows a recent review of the international outsourcing group's sprawling empire and the decision to get rid of businesses that are not shaping up. Times, Sunday Times In order to maintain power over a large, sprawling empire, it became necessary for the government to maintain a complex network of officials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To maintain power over a large, sprawling empire, the government maintained a complex network of officials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was five years after he had taken over as emperor and embarked on a mission to secure the frontiers of his vast empire. Times, Sunday Times It appeals to nostalgia for a vast empire that was lost in living memory. Times,Sunday Times Was it sensible to envisage a vast empire of 1.1 million employees, many engaged in low-margin 'mop and bucket' activities? Times, Sunday Times It was there the magnate says he learned crucial lessons about retail that have helped him expand his family's vast empire. The Sun A strong first quarter could help to close the gap between the company's valuation and its theoretical valuation if its vast empire was broken up and sold off. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 帝国 Japanese: 帝国 |
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