英语释义

• the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives

• the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group

• a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

片语

social democracy社会主义；社会民主主义

representative democracy代议民主

parliamentary democracy议会民主制

deliberative democracy协商民主；审议民主；商议性民主

participatory democracy分享民主制；参与性民主制度

liberal democracy自由民主；自由民主主义；自由民主制（一种政府形式，由人民选出的民意代表行使决策权力）

英汉例句

• There was a time when African leaders used to argue against multi-party democracy on the ground that it would exacerbate tribal divisions.

  曾几何时，非洲各国领导人都一直反对多党民主制，他们反对的理由是人为这可能导致各个部族之间加剧分裂。

• The person who embodies democracy at the local level is the mayor.

  在地方上代表民主的人是市长。

• He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.

  他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。

• None of this changes the fact that democracy is useless without a decent number of voters.

  这些都无法改变一个事实：没有相当数量的投票者，民主就没有了价值。

相似词

constitutional保健散步；保健运动

popular流行的，通俗的；受欢迎的；大众的；普及的

government政府；政体；管辖

republic共和国；共和政体

representative代表；典型；众议员；销售代表

commonwealth联邦；共和国；国民整体

相反词

despotism专制，独裁；专制政治

autocracy独裁政治；专制政治；独裁政府；独裁统治的国家

tyrannical残暴的；暴君的；专横的

despotic暴虐的，暴君的；专横的

autocratic专制的；独裁的，专横的