commonwealth
commonwealth 英 [ˈkɒmənwelθ] 美 [ˈkɑmənwelθ]
n. 联邦；共和国；州
名词复数:commonwealths
- A commonwealth refers to any group of people organized under a single government, particularly a republic. If you live in the United States of America, you live in a commonwealth.
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- n. 联邦；共和国；州
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1. a member of the Commonwealth
英联邦成员国
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2. Commonwealth countries
英联邦国家
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3. the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS
独立国家联合体（独联体）
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4. The city and the Commonwealth have lost a great leader.
这座城市和这个州失去了一位伟大的领袖。
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5. Puerto Rico remains a US commonwealth, not a state.
波多黎各至今仍然是美国的一个自治政区，而不是一个州。
- commonwealth (n.) mid-15c., commoun welthe, "a community, whole body of people in a state," from common (adj.) + wealth (n.). Specifically "state with a republican or democratic form of government" from 1610s. From 1550s as "any body of persons united by some common interest." Applied specifically to the government of England in the period 1649-1660, and later to self-governing former colonies under the British crown (1917). In the U.S., it forms a part of the official name of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico but has no special significance.
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