英:['fi:fdəm]
美:['fifdəm]
英:['fi:fdəm]
美:['fifdəm]
fief·dom
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词根:fief
n.fief 封地,采邑
noun
an area over which someone exercises control as or in the manner of a feudal lord … he encouraged the notion that the company was an extension of himself, and certainly it had been argued over the years that in his spending habits he treated it as his personal fiefdom.—Connie Bruck These men began to run Brazil as their personal fiefdom.—Sue Branford … corruption and nepotism are as rife as ever, with regional party leaders running their local fiefdoms like mafia godfathers.—Michael A. Hall
The Seigneur could not sell his fiefdom without approval from the Queen.—Timothy Foote
1814年,由 fief 和 -dom 组成。
The first known use of fiefdom was in 1814
1 Comedy impresario Michaels, who’s overseen “Late Night” since O’Brien came on board, will also be coming with Fallon to “Tonight” as executive producer, marking the further expansion of his fiefdom at NBC.
2 And while many blogs of the early aughties are now lost to the ether, her online fiefdom, Jennsylvania.com, remains strong.
3 Google, it seems, was run simply as Larry and Sergey's fiefdom: "The only rules that applied were the ones they agreed upon."
4 In 1940, Lysenko deposed his critics, assumed the directorship of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Union, and set up his own totalitarian fiefdom over Soviet biology.
5 The NGOs effectively became individual fiefdoms that displaced government agencies.
6 Julia Raeside With tax, and its avoidance, still very much a sore point for most of us, Antony Barnett takes a look at Prince Charles's diverse fiefdom, the Duchy of Cornwall.
7 Like "The Dreaming Jaw, the Salivating Ear," a story about a blogger killing a troll who sullied the fiefdom of her blog, they do not have any special affection for realism.
8 But Obama also commands his media fiefdom, with his wife as partner, in a way that no other ex-president has.
9 This fifth season meets Roy as he’s up for reelection and secure enough in his hold over his fiefdom to shoot another abusive man in his home in front of his wife.
10 The area nearest FSU’s football fiefdom used to be a scruffy collection of pool halls, warehouses and artists’ studios.
11 They did, at least, become the first reporters to penetrate his fiefdom, and come within his immediate ambit, family and inner circle.
12 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded by signing a bill revoking Disney's self-governing status, a unique arrangement in which the company operated like an independent fiefdom within the state.
13 In his North Dakota fiefdom, he styles himself as a “constitutional” lawman who believes his Biblical interpretation of right and wrong overrules all, including federal law.
14 The depravity, high-handedness, and cruelty of an authentically sophisticated nobility, both as a ruling class and as a model of refinement and character, is tragedy—Don Giovanni’s, his fiefdom’s, and all Europe’s.
15 Without that pressure to constantly expand, parties were free to experiment and build their modest freak fiefdoms.
16 Meanwhile, he’s reshaped Tribeca into what Levy calls a “little fiefdom” and what some neighborhood old-timers refer to as “Bob Row.”
17 She's chief again, and she is up against huge political obstructions, fiefdoms, networks and corruption, where the system that she had done so well with long ago has been run into the ground.
18 Shangluo Municipality Perched on the southeast of Shaanxi, historically it was the fiefdom of Sang Yang, a reformer.
商洛市位于陕西东南部,是历史上商鞅的封地。
19 The ancestors of the Shang had been awarded their fiefdom for helping Yu harness the flood.
商的始祖契因帮助禹治水有功而受封为诸侯,传到汤是第14代.
20 For decades, Scott has ruled his prairie fiefdom like a dictator.
3 封地
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