记忆方法
1、olig- + -archy.
中文词源
oligarchy 寡头政治
oligo-,寡，少，-archy,统治，治理，词源同anarchy.
英语词源
- oligarchy (n.)
- 1570s, from Middle French oligarchie (14c.), from Greek oligarkhia "government by the few," from stem of oligos "few, small, little" (see oligo-) + arkhein "to rule" (see archon).
权威例句
- 1. Athens was suffering under the rule of an oligarchy that had no concern for the people's welfare.
- 雅典当时饱受寡头集团的统治，他们对人民的福祉毫不关心。
- 2. The only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.
- 寡头政体的唯一可靠基础是集体主义。
- 3. But the landed oligarchy had stunted the country's democratic development for generations.
- 但是好几代以来土地寡头的统治阻碍了这个国家民主的发展.
- 4. It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.
- 他们早已认识到,寡头政体的唯一可靠基础是集体主义.
- 5. Insecure and fearful of its own people, the oligarchy preserves itself through tyranny.
- 由于担心和害怕自己的人民, 统治集团只能靠实行暴政来维护其统治.