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

During October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to disintegrate.
在1918年10月间，奥匈帝国开始瓦解。
He started off with one small factory, and now he's the head of a huge industrial empire.
他从一个小工场创业起家，现在成了一个大工业企业的老板。
The new Turkish republic he helped to build emerged from the ruins of a great empire
他帮助建立起的新土耳其共和国是从一个伟大帝国的废墟上发展起来的。
Those caverns had been sunk in the swampy ground at great cost, for the security of the empire.
为了帝国的安全，那些地下室里花了巨大的代价在潮湿的土地上挖出来的。
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。
The British Empire flourished in the 19th century.
英帝国在19世纪曾昌盛一时。
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。
He eventually constructed a business empire which ran to Thailand and Singapore
他最终构筑起了一个延伸至泰国和新加坡的商业帝国。
His widow has taken over the running of his empire, including six London theatres
他的遗孀已接手管理他创下的帝国，其中包括6家伦敦剧院。
The ancient empire was crushed and humbled to the dust.
那老大帝国被打得落花流水，威望扫地。