| 单词 | realm |
| 释义 | realm (once / 310 pages) n A realm is an area that is ruled by something. If you are a controlling cook who doesn’t like anyone to do anything else in the kitchen, then the kitchen is your realm. Realm comes from the French for kingdom, but since there aren’t so many kings or queens left in the world, you’ll more often find it referring to non-royal spheres. That could be the sphere of a special kind of knowledge, like the realm of biology, or the political realm. Or it could be an area dominated by some group. Little Italy was famously the realm of the mafia; Hollywood is the realm of film stars. WORD FAMILYrealm: realms USAGE EXAMPLESThey combined their talents to move beyond selling bulk beans in the commodity market and into the value-added realm. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) So it might remain in the realm of science fiction for a while. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) And all of these ideas are within the realm of serious debate about our health-care system. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1n a domain in which something is dominant the rise of the realm of cotton in the south Syn|Hypo|Hyper kingdom, land lotus land, lotusland an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere a particular environment or walk of life 2n the domain ruled by a king or queen Syn|Exp|Hyper kingdom Numidia an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria demesne, domain, land territory over which rule or control is exercised 3n a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about it was a limited realm of discourse the realm of the occult Syn|Hyper region domain, knowledge base, knowledge domain the content of a particular field of knowledge |
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