empire

英 [ˈempaɪə(r)]

美 [ˈempaɪər]

n. 帝国; 大企业; 企业集团

复数：empires　

Oxford 3000 / Collins.3 / BNC.2251 / COCA.4218

牛津词典

noun

帝国
a group of countries or states that are controlled by one ruler or government
1. the Roman empire
  罗马帝国
大企业；企业集团
a group of commercial organizations controlled by one person or company
1. a business empire
  大型企业集团

N-COUNT 帝国
Anempireis a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country.
1. ...the Roman Empire.
  罗马帝国
N-COUNT 企业王国;企业集团
You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as anempire.
1. ...the big Mondadori publishing empire.
  庞大的蒙达多利出版帝国

noun

a group of countries under a single authority
1. the British created a great empire
a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
Synonym:conglomerate
a monarchy with an emperor as head of state
the domain ruled by an emperor or empress
Synonym:imperium

The empire could not cohere as a legitimate whole.
这个帝国无法凝聚成一个合法的整体。
Many investors must be hoping that he will be dethroned, his publishing empire dismembered.
众多投资者此时一定希望他能被撵下台，他的出版帝国四分五裂。
When Emperor Wen first came to the throne, a general amnesty was proclaimed to the empire.
文帝初立，大赦天下。
She felt herself to be part of a large business empire
她觉得自己成了一个庞大的商业帝国中的一分子。
The Roman Empire was divided in the fourth century AD.
罗马帝国于公元4世纪分裂。
The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
这位已故大亨的儿子们将坐在豪华的办公室里，目睹这个家族帝国崩溃前的痛苦挣扎。
The British Empire flourished in the 19th century.
英帝国在19世纪曾昌盛一时。
Our lives have straddled a period of greater change than perhaps any since the end of the Roman Empire
我们生活的这个时期所经历的变革可能是罗马帝国灭亡以来最巨大的。
His business empire collapsed under a massive burden of debt
他的商业帝国无力承担沉重的债务负担而垮掉了。
The subject peoples of her empire were anxious for their own independence.
她的帝国中被迫向她臣服的民族迫切渴望自身的独立。