(noun.) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government; 'governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed'--Declaration of Independence.
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双语例句
Governing his curiosity better than I had governed mine, he passed us without a word, and went on into the house. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Beginning with the State, I replied, would you say that a city which is governed by a tyrant is free or enslaved? 柏拉图.理想国.
This was in the old days when the Patricians alone governed Venice--the common herd had no vote and no voice. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Let us apply the first element in this criterion to a despotically governed state. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
A virtuous and laborious people may be cheaply governed. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Community of study and amusement developed the best parts of his character, his steady perseverance, generosity, and well-governed firmness. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Yes, but hang it,' says Wegg argumentatively, 'a well-governed mind can be soured sitting! 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
So far I have governed myself thoroughly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
This, in connection with an ingenious management of springs, absorbed the shocks and governed the machine so that no matter what was done to it, it would operate only at a certain speed. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
The escorted governed his own horse, but a loose line was attached to his bridle, the end of which one of the patriots kept girded round his wrist. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
I have laid down my plan, and if I am capable of adhering to itmy feelings shall be governed and my temper improved. 简·奥斯汀.理智与情感.
I took it that the colored people would go there in great numbers, so as to have independent states governed by their own race. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
Now there are occasions on which the governors and the governed meet together,--at festivals, on a journey, voyaging or fighting. 柏拉图.理想国.
What is to be done with a human being that can be governed only by the lash,--_that_ fails,--it's a very common state of things down here! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.