- 1政府的;與政府有關的
Governmental means “of a government” or “to do with government” — money, power, offices, rules that come from the state. It is a stiff adjective. We say governmental power, a governmental body, governmental control. Though actually, everyday English often just puts government in front of the noun instead: government policy, government money, government schools. That shorter form is what most people say. Governmental sounds more official, more like a report. The place keep meeting this word is in non-governmental: a non-governmental organization (an ) is a group that does public work but is not the state — a charity, a campaign group, a foundation. So the word is often useful in the negative: not the government.
From the word’s history
From government + -al.
由 government「政府」加 -al 組成。
組成government + -al, which makes an adjective meaning “of or about.” Government itself is the older chain: English government from French, from Latin gubernare “to steer,” and that Latin verb goes back to a Greek verb about steering a ship.
同家族的字
- governmentthe noun this adjective is built from
- governthe verb sitting inside government
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
governmentaladj/ˌɡʌv(ə)nˈmɛnt(ə)l/
- 1
Relating to a government.
- governmental agency
- governmental decision
- 2
Relating to governing.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。