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A dictatorship is a way of running a country where one person, or a small group, holds all the power. There are no real elections, or the elections aren't fair, so ordinary people can't choose or remove their leader. It's the opposite of democracy, where people vote and power can change hands peacefully.
獨裁統治、獨裁政權
組成dictator + -ship (a suffix meaning 'the state or condition of being').
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dictatorshipnoun/ˈdɪktæɪtəʃɪp/
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A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
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A government which exercises autocratic rule.
- There were no elections during Franco's dictatorship.
- His object, he declares, is not to set up a dictatorship but to achieve 'true democracy' by combating the idea of tolerance, on the ground that the vast majority cannot form right judgements when their minds are deformed by democratic sources of information.
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Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.
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Total authority, control, or domination.
- It has had a deplorable effect in furnishing pretexts for the stifling of all independent philosophical thought and in establishing the party's dictatorship over science and culture in every sphere.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。