theocracy

英 [θiˈɒkrəsi]

美 [θiˈɑːkrəsi]

n.  神权政治; 僧侣政体; 神权国; 神权政治国家

复数：theocracies　

GRE

BNC.39335 / COCA.20909

牛津词典

noun

• 神权政治；僧侣政体
  government of a country by religious leaders
• 神权国；神权政治国家
  a country that is governed by religious leaders

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 僧侣政体;神权政体
  Atheocracyis a society which is ruled by priests who represent a god.
  1. ...a medieval theocracy run by Buddhist monks.
     中世纪僧侣掌权的神权政体

英英释义

noun

• the belief in government by divine guidance
• a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)

双语例句

• Almost as unanticipated as theocracy on the march has been the summons, from the tomb, of financial governance that quaint old thing abandoned in the junkyard of the outmoded as the 1990s expired.
  几乎就像神权政治卷土重来一样出人意料的，是来自坟墓的金融治理的召唤那是上世纪90年代结束时被抛弃在历史垃圾堆中的古怪的旧事物。
• This paper holds it that the non moral thought of theocracy was transformed into heavy penalty judicial practice, which among others, accounts for the collapse of the Yin Empire.
  殷代非道德主义的神权法思想被转化为重刑主义的司法实践，是导致殷帝国垮台的重要原因之一。
• While the regime, a complex blend of theocracy with more secular power structures, tolerates a degree of diversity, it likes to present itself as a united entity.
  在容忍一定程度多元化的同时，采取政教合一复杂结构的伊朗政权，喜欢塑造出国家团结的形象。
• Even the Muslim Brothers look as if they will opt for civil society rather than theocracy.
  甚至是穆斯林兄弟看起来好像更适合文明的社会，而非神权统治。
• Today's modern state is far larger than historic Montenegro, which for centuries was ruled as a theocracy by a prince-bishop.
  今日的门的内哥罗比过去大多了。再不是那个在国君兼任主教的神权统治下的小国。
• In the frame of the medieval theocracy, the ideology of equality inherent in the three basic cultural elements forms the base and precondition, in which the sense of the popular sovereignty in the medieval political culture exists.
  在西欧中世纪的神权政治框架内，三种文化基质所内涵的平等观念是其政治文化中民权意识的前提和基础。
• Israel, however, is not a theocracy and other religions are respected.
  然而，以色列并不是一个神权政体，也尊重其他的宗教。
• Despite its historical limitations, his theory is progressive because it is against religious theocracy and feudal separatist rule, and for the idea that the state sovereignty comes from people.
  尽管霍布斯的国家学说具有历史局限性，但同时它还具有反对宗教神权、反对封建割据、主张国家主权来自人民的进步意义。
• The supreme ruler of a theocracy, fear to lose in the hands of Mace.
  一个政教合一的最高统治者，最怕失去手中的权杖。
• In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country.
  在我们这样的一个政教合一的国家，整个国家都只能呢个有一种宗教观点。