govern
- IPA[ˈɡʌvn]
英式
- conduct the policy, actions, and affairs of (a state, organization, or people) with authority；control, influence, or regulate (a person, action, or course of events)
verb: govern, 3rd person present: governs, gerund or present participle: governing, past tense: governed, past participle: governed
- 釋義
- 相關詞
動詞
- 1. conduct the policy, actions, and affairs of (a state, organization, or people) with authority he was incapable of governing the country 同義詞
- ▪ control, influence, or regulate (a person, action, or course of events) the future of Jamaica will be governed by geography not history 同義詞
- ▪ conduct oneself, especially with regard to controlling one's emotions he does not have the ability to govern himself or others successfully 同義詞
- ▪ serve to decide (a legal case).
- 2. (of a word) require that (another word or group of words) be in a particular case the Latin preposition ‘cum’ governs nouns in the ablative
- (of a region or organization) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs: the small island nation is self-governed self-funded, self-governed corporations
Oxford American Dictionary
- (of a region or organization) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs: the small island nation is self-governed self-funded, self-governed corporations
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈɡəvərn]
美式
- conduct the policy, actions, and affairs of (a state, organization, or people): he was incapable of governing the country
Oxford American Dictionary
