| 单词 | government |
| 释义 | government —governmental /guv'euhrn men"tl, -euhr men"-/, adj. —governmentally, adv. /guv"euhrn meuhnt, -euhr meuhnt/, n. 1. the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society. 2. the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed: monarchical government; episcopal government. 3. the governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.; administration. 4. a branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation, taken as representing the whole: a dam built by the government. 5. (in some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom) a. the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time: The Prime Minister has formed a new government. b. the parliament along with the cabinet: The government has fallen. 6. direction; control; management; rule: the government of one's conduct. 7. a district governed; province. 8. See political science. 9. Gram. the extablished usage that requires that one word in a sentence should cause another to be of a particular form: the government of the verb by its subject. [1350-1400; ME < OF governement. See GOVERN, -MENT] Usage. See collective noun. Pronunciation. Normal phonological processes are reflected in a variety of pronunciations for GOVERNMENT. Most commonly, the first /n/ of /guv"euhrn meuhnt/ assimilates to the immediately following /m/, with the resulting identical nasal sounds coalescing to give the pronunciation /guv"euhr meuhnt/. This pronunciation is considered standard and occurs throughout the U.S. For speakers in regions where postvocalic /r/ is regularly lost, as along the Eastern Seaboard and in the South, the resulting pronunciation is /guv"euh meuhnt/ or, with loss of the medial unstressed vowel, /guv"meuhnt/. Further assimilation, in which the labiodental /v/, in anticipation of the bilabial quality of the following /m/, becomes the bilabial stop /b/, leads in the South Midland and Southern U.S. to the pronunciation /gub"meuhnt/. See isn't. |
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