totalitarian
totalitarian 英 [təʊˌtæləˈteəriən] 美 [toʊˌtæləˈteriən]
adj. 极权主义的 n. 极权主义者
名词复数:totalitarians
- You can decipher the meaning of totalitarian by the first part: "total." It refers to a government with total power, one that exercises complete, even oppressive control over the people and their activities. (You can also figure it’s not nice.)
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- adj. 极权主义的
- n. 极权主义者
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1. Almost all government adopt totalitarian measures in time of war.
几乎所有的政府在战时都采取极权主义的措施。
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2. It predetermined the course of events in ending the cold war, moving toward a new world order and, in spite of everything, producing gradual movement away from a totalitarian state to a democracy.
这一政策预先决定了许多大事件的发展进程，比如冷战的结束，世界局势向新秩序的扭转，以及不顾一切地由极权主义国家向民主国家的过渡等等。
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3. But despite his abhorrence for the Wall and the totalitarian system it symbolized, Reagan was even more mindful of the consequences of military confrontation with the Soviets.
尽管里根厌恶柏林墙及其象征的极权主义体制，但他更介意的是与苏联之间的军事对抗所带来的后果。
- totalitarian (adj.) 1926, first in reference to Italian fascism, formed in English on model of Italian totalitario "complete, absolute, totalitarian," from total (adj.) + ending from authoritarian. The noun is recorded from 1938.
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