democracy

释义

n.

民主；民主国家；民主政体；民主制度

网络

德先生；民主政治；民主主义

词形变化

复数：democracies

常用短语 6 组

social democracy

n. 社会主义；社会民主主义

deliberative democracy

协商民主；审议民主；商议性民主

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）

representative democracy

代议民主

parliamentary democracy

议会民主制

participatory democracy

分享民主制；参与性民主制度

在例句中理解 32 句

1. It sounds like the sort of constitutional fine-tuning to be expected in a young democracy.

   这听起来似乎是一个幼稚的民主政治中的体制的微调。

2. What strange twists of fate had caused a refuge from Nazi persecution to wind up in Arabia as the representative of American democracy.

   是受了什么稀奇古怪的命运的主宰，使我能从一个逃脱了纳粹迫害的难民如今变成了代表美国这个民主国家出使阿拉伯世界的使者的呢！

3. The president is likely to ask other summit-goers to press Cuba on issues of democracy, including the release of political prisoners.

   奥巴马很可能会要求参加峰会的其他国家领导人能在释放政治犯等民主问题上给古巴施压。

4. It has showed how much our leaders tried to built democracy into society years by years, but it doesn't work as they really want it.

   它显示了有多少领导人若干年以来努力建立民主社会，但是事与愿违。

5. Though only 50% of the city's eligible voters bothered to turn out, it was refreshing to see even a glimpse of democracy in action.

   虽然只有50%的合格选民参加选举投票，纵使选举体现出的民主极为有限，也依然令人感到欣喜。

6. If so, Thailand may emerge from two years of political strife and regain its former status as a beacon of multi-party democracy in Asia.

   假如这样的话，泰国将摆脱两年来的政治冲突，重新成为亚洲多党派民主政治的灯塔。

7. "Egyptians have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day, " he said.

   埃及人民证明了一点：只有真正的民主才能取得胜利。

8. The point is simple, if extraordinarily difficult for those of us proud of our traditions to accept: this democracy no longer works.

   那答案很明了，即使对于我们这些以传统而自豪的人很难接受那样一个事实：民主不复存在。

9. He praised the appearance of a strong second political party as a step toward true democracy.

   他称赞道，一个第二政党的崛起使得日本迈向了真正的民主。

10. On the surface it appears to be in conflict with America's much touted democracy, but this is not the case.

    这看起来似乎与美国所标榜的民主相冲突，但其实不然。

11. Direct democracy in California is thus an aberration. It has no safeguards against Madison's tyranny of the majority.

    因此，加州的直接民主超越常规，它对麦迪逊担心的多数人的暴政没有任何防卫。

12. He said the country had a "long and winding road towards full democracy" , but the US and other countries would stand behind Tripoli.

    他说利比亚“还有漫长曲折的道路迈向民主主义”但是美国还有世界上其他国家都会在背后支持的黎波里滴。

13. All this seems to point to a slow maturing of democracy in Latin America.

    这一切似乎指向民主在拉美地区的缓慢成熟。

14. Voters in a democracy may not know all or even any of the technicalities of running a government, but they surely can judge the results.

    一个民主政体的选民们也许并不通晓运作政府的技巧，甚至对此一无所知，但他们当然可以判断运作的结果好坏。

15. Messy, frustrating, and more often than not agonizingly slow, India's democracy would seem to be chaotic at the surface.

    杂乱，令人沮丧，而且往往是令人痛苦的缓慢，印度的民主似乎是混乱的表面。

16. Dewey set out to fulfill the American dream of a public school system that was the chief training ground for democracy.

    杜威着手实现美国公共学校制的理想，这种制度是民主政治的主要训练基地。

17. Obama wanders into a casual disquisition about the sluggish nature of democracy.

    奥巴摩不经意间谈论起了关于民主政治发展迟缓的话题。

18. He considered the best state to be a polity, which he defined as a common wealth intermediate between oligarchy and democracy.

    他认为最好的国家是一种政治组织，他定义其为一种介于寡头政治和民主政治之间的普遍财富媒介。

19. You are right to say that there cannot be any democracy in the Arab world without the participation of the Islamists.

    贵刊说得很对，缺少了伊斯兰教徒的参与阿拉伯世界就不可能有任何形式的民主。

20. The president said the constitution guarantees fundamental freedoms and lays the foundation for lasting democracy.

    布什总统指出，宪法草案保障基本自由，并为持久民主奠定了基础。

21. As I said in Cairo, each nation gives life to democracy in its own way, and in line with its own traditions.

    如同我在开罗所说，每个国家都以自己的方式、按自己的传统赋予民主生命力。

22. But a preliminary report from the Arab Democracy Foundation says those irregularities did not affect the election.

    但是阿拉伯民主基金会的初步报告说，这些异常现象并没有影响选举结果。

23. Fact of the matter is you are able to write this much, is only possible because this great democracy gives you freedom of expression.

    事实上，你可以写这么多，唯一的可能是因为伟大的民主给你言论自由。

24. Quoting the chairman, Pun said his party would not copy any other model of democracy but would establish a unique system suitable to Nepal.

    皮恩引用普拉昌达的话说，他们党不会照抄其它任何形式的民主，而会建立一种专门适合尼泊尔的制度。

25. "Before the elections we had so much so-called democracy that it has made us nauseated, " he said.

    他说：“大选前，我们有太多的让我们作呕的所谓民主。”

26. Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

    民主是政府迷人的外衣，充满了变化和无序，并且以相同的方式分配给地位平等或不等的人。

27. And he still says that it was right to invade, because it scared other would-be proliferators and turned Iraq into a peaceful democracy.

    布什仍然认为当时的入侵策略是正确的，因为它不仅威慑了潜在的核扩散国家，也将伊拉克改造成为一个和平的民主国家。

28. The author argues that this definition makes it difficult to determine what precisely constitutes a representative democracy.

    作者在此表明，这个定义使得确定何种因素正好构建了代议制民主这一问题变得困难。

29. BIG, peaceful demonstrations in the run-up to a presidential election may look like signs of a healthy democracy. Not in Russia.

    总统选举前夕出现大规模和平示威也许看上去是健全民主制度的标志。但在俄罗斯却不是。

30. a return to democracy after 16 years of military rule

    16年军人统治后民主制度的恢复

31. democracy within the trade unions

    工会内部的民主

32. a parliamentary democracy

    议会民主制国家