- 1三巨頭、三人執政（羅馬史稱三頭政治）
A group of three people who together hold the power in something. The core sense is Roman history: in ancient Rome a triumvirate was a formal alliance of three men ruling the state — most Caesar, and Crassus. Modern English keeps that shape but uses it loosely for any powerful trio: the three executives who really run a company, the three ministers who decide policy, the three writers who shaped a whole style of music. Two things give the word its flavour. First, the three are roughly equal — it is not a leader with two , it is power genuinely shared, which is also why real triumvirates tend to break apart when one member wants more. Second, it sounds formal and a little grand, so journalists and writers often use it half-jokingly for smaller trios ("the triumvirate that runs the school "). It is countable: one triumvirate, two triumvirates. A member is a `triumvir`, though that word is now almost purely historical.
組成A learned borrowing from Latin triumvirātus, from triumvir "one of three men (sharing an office)": trium "of three" (from trēs "three") + vir "man", plus -ātus (English -ate) meaning an office or the group holding it. So, literally, "the office of the three men".
原始詞典資料3 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。
triumviratenoun/tɹaɪˈʌmvəɹət/
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historicalgovernmentA council of three magistrates ruling jointly; specifically, the First Triumvirate (60 or 59 – 53 B.C.E.) or the Second Triumvirate (43 – 33 or 27 B.C.E.); the office of a triumvir (“one of such magistrates”), or of the three triumviri.
- […] I muſt not forget to ſet dovvne a pretie jeſt, vvhich hath been reported by many as touching Lepidus: It happened during the time of his Triumvirat, […]
- [H]e frets / That Lepidus of the Triumpherate, ſhould be depos'd, / And being that, vve detaine all his Reuenue.
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governmentAny group of three joint rulers.
- Then vvas contriued a petition, as from the generalitie, vnto the triumuirat Gouernors; vvherein they ſupplicated, that by no meanes they ſhould reſigne the gouernment to any ſhould come from England, vpon vvhat tearmes ſoeuer, vntill ſix moneths after the returne of their ſhip ſent to the VVeſt-Indies: […]
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Any group of three people regarded as significant in some way; also (rare), a group of three things; a trio.
- I have therefore alvvayes endevoured to compoſe thoſe fevvds and angry diſſentions betvveene affection, faith, and reaſon. For there is in our ſoule a kind of Triumvirate, or triple government of three competitors, vvhich diſtract the peace of this our Common-vvealth, not leſſe than did that other the State of Rome.
- VVhen Johnson [Ben Jonson], [William] Shakespeare, and thy ſelfe [John Fletcher] did ſit, / And ſvvay'd in the Triumvirate of vvit— […]
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