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

Many investors must be hoping that he will be dethroned, his publishing empire dismembered.
众多投资者此时一定希望他能被撵下台，他的出版帝国四分五裂。
She published historical novels, as well as a non-fiction study of women in the British Empire
她出版了许多历史小说和一部有关英帝国女性的纪实性研究著作。
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。
That country had absorbed some small states into her empire.
那个国家曾将几个小国合并到她的帝国中去。
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。
The French empire had expanded largely through military conquest.
法兰西帝国的扩张主要靠军事征服。
The British Empire flourished in the 19th century.
英帝国在19世纪曾昌盛一时。
The ancient empire was crushed and humbled to the dust.
那老大帝国被打得落花流水，威望扫地。
She felt herself to be part of a large business empire
她觉得自己成了一个庞大的商业帝国中的一分子。
The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
这位已故大亨的儿子们将坐在豪华的办公室里，目睹这个家族帝国崩溃前的痛苦挣扎。