a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
dominance through threat of punishment and violence
despotism 片语
片语
autarchy专制,独裁;专制国家
dictature独裁;独裁政府(等于dictatorship)
despotism 例句
英汉例句
of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples(samuel eliot morison.
我们有许多因不受控制的军事力量而导致专政的例子(塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森)。
from romanticism to existentialism, the theme 「dark, alienation and death」 is accompanied by the historical process of resistance to despotism and capitalism.
through revolution, the abandonment of personal despotism may be engendered and the end of profit-seeking and domineering oppression may occur, but never a true reform of the state of mind.