英语词典 · 单词释义
govern
英 ['gʌv(ə)n] 美 ['ɡʌvɚn]
这里集中整理“govern”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
单词速览
词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- vt. 管理；支配；统治；控制
- vi. 居支配地位；进行统治
- n. (Govern)人名；(英)戈文
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
第三人称单数: governs;过去式: governed;过去分词: governed;现在分词: governing;
中文词源
govern 统治，管理
来自拉丁语gubernare,驾驶，操纵，引申义管理，尤指政府，词源cybernetic, gubernatorial.
英文词源
- govern
- govern: [13] Politicians’ clichés about ‘steering the ship of state’ are no new thing; for the distant ancestor of English govern is the Greek verb kubernan ‘steer a ship’ (source also of English cybernetics). It developed the metaphorical sense ‘guide, rule’, and it was this that passed with it via Latin gubernāre and Old French governer into English. The Latin form is preserved in gubernatorial ‘of a governor’ [18].
=> cybernetics, gubernatorial - govern (v.)
- late 13c., "to rule with authority," from Old French governer "steer, be at the helm of; govern, rule, command, direct" (11c., Modern French gouverner), from Latin gubernare "to direct, rule, guide, govern" (source also of Spanish gobernar, Italian governare), originally "to steer, to pilot," a nautical borrowing from Greek kybernan "to steer or pilot a ship, direct as a pilot," figuratively "to guide, govern" (the root of cybernetics). The -k- to -g- sound shift is perhaps via the medium of Etruscan. Intransitive sense from 1590s. Related: Governed; governing.
双语例句
- 1. The republics began asserting their right to govern themselves.
- 各加盟共和国开始要求获得自治权。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The govern-ment will continue to try to regenerate inner city areas.
- 政府将继续努力重建内城地区。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The govern-ment gave 30 million marks for new school books.
- 政府拨款3000万马克用于购置学校的新教材。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. They were utterly unfit to govern America.
- 他们完全没有能力治理美国。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The govern-ment cannot afford to alienate either group.
- 疏远两个团体中的任何一方都是政府承受不起的。
来自柯林斯例句