核心畫面
You can picture government as the act of steering a whole country — taking the wheel, setting the direction, deciding the rules. From that one act of steering you get both the group of people doing the steering and the system they steer by.
可以想成「掌舵整個國家」這件事：有人握住方向盤，定方向、立規矩、做決定。從這個「掌舵」的動作，一邊長出「掌舵的那群人…更多收起
可以想成「掌舵整個國家」這件事：有人握住方向盤，定方向、立規矩、做決定。從這個「掌舵」的動作，一邊長出「掌舵的那群人」，一邊長出「他們照著掌舵的那套制度」。原始詞典資料9 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。
governmentnoun/ˈɡʌv.ɚ(n).mənt/
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The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
- British government has historically centred exclusively on London.
- […]and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe relationship between a word and its dependents.
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The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
- Near-synonyms: state, administration
- If the citizens must follow the law, then the government must follow the constitution.
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The management or control of a system.
- The government of the Church is maintained without material alteration in a settled hierarchical form.
- Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the government of Her Majesty's Navy, whereon, under the good Providence of God, the wealth, safety and strength of the Kingdom so much depend:
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The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
- The Sunak government announced plans to stem the flow of migrants coming into Great Britain.
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In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.
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The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
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A guberniya.
- with its centre in Liubawitz, in the Government of Mohilev.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。