| 单词 | despotism |
| 释义 | des·po·tism 1. a. < despotism is a perversion of sovereignty in which the interests of a governing class usurp the place belonging to the general interest — G.H.Sabine > < an excess of law is despotism, from which free men revolt — S.B.Pettengill > b. < under the parental despotism of the Confucian code of ethics — Times Literary Supplement > < warnings against educational despotism > < that despotism is one of the major biological principles; that whenever two birds are together invariably one is despot — W.C.Allee > < game fads sweep film circles, achieve a social despotism which lasts for weeks — Leo Rosten > 2. a. < the conception of government by naked, overwhelming power alone — power itself ungoverned by anything beyond the whims of its possessors … is of course the conception of tyranny or despotism — J.T.Dunlop > < the old despotism of the czars > b. < that Communism is the surest way yet found to continue the old Asian despotisms in modern times — New Yorker > < under the despotism of Cromwell — Hilaire Belloc > |
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