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Misrule is bad government — ruling a country, a city, or a people badly. It is an old, rather noun. Historians write of years of misrule; you will not often hear it at the night market. There is a verb too, to misrule, meaning to govern badly, but the noun is what most texts use. Though actually, English also has a playful old sense: the Lord of Misrule was a person chosen at Christmas in past centuries to lead wild games and turn the usual order upside down for a short time. That festive sense is history now; the serious sense “bad government” is the one meet in news and school texts. It is not “a rule you missed.”
治理不善；暴政
組成mis- (badly) + rule (to govern, or government). From Middle English mysrule.
同家族的字
- rulethe same stem without mis-; to govern, or government
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。
misrulenoun/mɪsˈɹuːl/
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The state of being ruled badly; disorder, lawlessness, anarchy.
- They followed their leader in regular procession, and the motley characters, which had waited his arrival, now crowded into the church in his train, shouting as they came,—“A hall, a hall! for the venerable Father Howleglas, the learned Monk of Misrule, and the Right Reverend Abbot of Unreason!”
- Before and after the revolution, in the several states and in the country at large, pressing emergencies have occurred, periods of danger, trouble and dismay have arisen, when the community was full of misrule, and a particular state or the nation, seemed to be upon the brink of some fearful and disastrous change—yet the danger passed quickly away.
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Misgovernment; bad or unjust government.
- But in the recent past, there had been plenty of accusations and instances of Henry's oppressive misrule, of which the execution of the earl of Warwick, Suffolk's cousin, was the most recent and emphatic example.
misruleverb/mɪsˈɹuːl/
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lawOf a trial judge, to make a bad decision in court.
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To rule badly; to misgovern.
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。