| 单词 | the ten |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Ten c. the Ten: extracted from tenadj.n.adv.Thesaurus » Categories » (b) The Council of Ten: see council n. 9. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] > in Venetian republic decemvir1615 the Ten1636 giunta1673 1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy I. 231 As it appear'd in the example of Manlius, and in that of the tenne. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. ii. 82 A sceptic of all measures which had not The sanction of ‘the Ten’. 1878 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1898) I. iv. iv. 205 The old Magistracy of the Ten for war affairs was preserved. 1878 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1898) II. iii. 41 The Ten brought swift and exemplary justice to bear. (c) The group of countries comprising the European Economic Community after January 1981 when Greece joined the existing group of nine countries (the expectation expressed in quot. 1971, but not fulfilled, was that Norway would become a member in 1973 together with Denmark, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom) (cf. six adj. 2j). ΚΠ 1971 Guardian 20 Dec. 10/2 The objective for the Six (and the prospective Ten) should be to bring down the trade barriers. 1981 Times 24 Dec. 1/2 The EEC denounced ‘the grave violation of the human and civil rights of the Polish people’..and said these were causing ‘growing concern’ among the people and governments of the Ten. < as lemmas |
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