Dominion

(noun.) one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth.

(noun.) dominance or power through legal authority; 'France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa'; 'the rule of Caesar'.

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• But being neglected by Sweden, it was soon swallowed up by the Dutch colony of New York, which again, in 1674, fell under the dominion of the English. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Another, to respect more the property of private persons under conquest, and to be content with acquired dominion. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• For a time they shared a common dread of French conquest and dominion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• South Italy and Sicily, however, remained under foreign dominion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• How much time she might, in her own fancy, allot for its dominion, is another concern. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Under the present system of management, therefore, Great Britain derives nothing but loss from the dominion which she assumes over her colonies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• What, if the more potent of these fraternal deities should obtain dominion over it? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I tell you, I will be king in my own domains, and nowhere else; and my first act of dominion shall be to hang the Abbot. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The enormous importance of such a machine began to be appreciated at the beginning of the century, and it set cotton up as a King whose dominion has extended across the seas. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For some generations Alexander the Great was for mankind the symbol and embodiment of world order and world dominion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The government of that country, at that time under the dominion of Spain, prohibited, in return, the importation of English woollens. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They seldom acknowledged themselves subject to the dominion of the mother city. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• With animals I feel I am Adam's son, the heir of him to whom dominion was given over 'every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• God made him to have dominion over the works of his hands, and put all things under his feet. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Ferguson said, further, that the Pope permits no ancient work of this kind to leave his dominions. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It presently dawned upon Mr. Briggs as a richly coloured and creditable fact he had hitherto not observed, that the sun never set on his dominions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Many of their dominions were less both in size and value than the larger estates of the British nobility. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In Britain, England carried on her back the Hanoverian dominions in Germany, Scotland, the profoundly alien Welsh and the hostile and Catholic Irish. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it must be observed, that this island cannot move beyond the extent of the dominions below, nor can it rise above the height of four miles. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Let those who went up through Spain make the best of it --these dominions of the Emperor of Morocco suit our little party well enough. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It looked an insignificant thing to have conferred upon the world of science and mechanics such a mighty extension of their dominions as it has. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• By the terms of this peace, all Sicily, except for the dominions of Hiero of Syracuse, became an estate of the Roman people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The dominions of the emperor Tai-tsung (627), the second Tang monarch, extended southward into Annam and westward to the Caspian Sea. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Two from the outer world are at large within the dominions of the therns. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• They universally, therefore, established the reformation in their own dominions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Usurpers, rebellious generals, and false prophets seemed to have vanished from the Moslem dominions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They established dominions of a similar sort. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But I had another reason, which made me less forward to enlarge his majesty's dominions by my discoveries. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The dominions of the Duke of Normandy, for example, were more extensive and more powerful than the patrimony of Hugh Capet. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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