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

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。
No one has the empire over the minds of men.
没有人对人们的思想有绝对的控制权。
the twilight years of the Habsburg empire.
哈布斯堡帝国的衰落时期
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 ancient Romans extended their empire into asia.
古罗马人把罗马帝国扩张到亚洲境内。
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。
The Roman Empire depended largely on auxiliaries for its defense.
罗马帝国在防务上很大程度依靠雇佣军。
His business empire collapsed under a massive burden of debt
他的商业帝国无力承担沉重的债务负担而垮掉了。
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。
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。