| 单词 | great power |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat power (d) Esp. in great power (often in plural). ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [noun] > powerful person or body > powerful state or nation potentate1624 power1658 great power1660 world power1855 1660 G. Bridges tr. Duc de Rohan Divers Politique Disc. vi. 32 in tr. Duc de Rohan Memoires France and Spain are the two great Powers of Europe. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 11 They, who are eager..to sacrifice her Commerce, by intangling Her..with the other great Powers of Europe. 1807 in Hansard Parl. Deb. (1812) VIII. 308 France is a great power on the continent, England is a great power by sea. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. ii. 21 All States except the five great Powers are exempt from the duty of watching over the general safety. 1919 Contemp. Rev. July 41 A small nation which possesses petroleum, or forests, or ‘strategical position’ is..deliberately hunted to death by a Great Power or a Group of Great Powers. 1955 Times 11 May 10/3 Moscow invariably speaks of a meeting of the Great Powers rather than the four Powers. 2008 Daily Tel. 26 May (Business section) b4/1 For 700 years Ireland was Britain's outer defence..against the great powers of continental Europe. < as lemmas |
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