potentate
potentate 英 [ˈpəʊtnteɪt] 美 [ˈpoʊtnteɪt]
n. 统治者，君主；有权势的人
名词复数:potentates
- A potentate is a person so powerful that he or she doesn't have to follow the rules that govern everyone else. Potentate normally refers to a king or dictator, but you can call anyone with virtually unlimited power a potentate.
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- n. 统治者，君主；有权势的人
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1. It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles .
在人类的一生中，虚荣心影响之大是怎么夸张也不会过分的，从三岁幼童到皱皱眉就震动天下的君主无一例外。
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2. People rose up against the despotic rule of their potentate .
人们起来反抗君主的专制统治。
- potentate (n.) c. 1400, from Old French potentat and directly from Late Latin potentatus "a ruler," also "political power," from Latin potentatus "might, power, rule, dominion," from potentem (nominative potens) "powerful," from potis "powerful, able, capable; possible;" of persons, "better, preferable; chief, principal; strongest, foremost," from PIE root *poti- "powerful; lord."
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