dominion
noun /dəˈmɪnjən/
/dəˈmɪnjən/
- [uncountable] dominion (over somebody/something) (literary) authority to rule; control
统治(权);管辖;支配 - Man has dominion over the natural world.
人类拥有对自然界的统治权。 - Soon the whole country was under his sole dominion.
不久,他便独揽了整个国家的大权。
- Man has dominion over the natural world.
- [countable] (formal) an area controlled by one political leader
领土;版图 - the vast dominions of the Roman Empire
罗马帝国的辽阔疆域
- the vast dominions of the Roman Empire
- (often Dominion)[countable] (in the past
) any of the countries of the British Commonwealth that had their own government旧时 compare colony, protectorate(英联邦)自治领
词源Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin dominio(n-), from Latin dominium, from dominus ‘lord, master’.