supremacy

英 [suːˈpreməsi]

美 [suːˈpreməsi]

n.  至高无上; 最大权力; 最高权威; 最高地位

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Collins.1 / BNC.9889 / COCA.11573

牛津词典

noun

• 至高无上；最大权力；最高权威；最高地位
  a position in which you have more power, authority or status than anyone else
  1. the battle for supremacy in the region
     争夺地区霸权的较量
  2. the dangerous notion of white supremacy (= that white races are better than others and should control them)
     危险的白人至上观念
  3. The company has established total supremacy over its rivals.
     公司奠定了对竞争对手的绝对优势。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 至高无上;最大权力;霸权
  If one group of people hassupremacyover another group, they have more political or military power than the other group.
  1. The conservative old guard had re-established its political supremacy...
     守旧的保守派已经重新掌控了政治大权。
  2. The president has been able to assert his ultimate supremacy over the prime minister.
     总统行使了高于总理的最高决策权。
• N-UNCOUNT 优势
  If someone or something hassupremacyover another person or thing, they are better.
  1. In the United States Open final, Graf retained overall supremacy.
     在美国网球公开赛决赛中，格拉芙始终保持优势。

英英释义

noun

• power to dominate or defeat
  1. mastery of the seas
  Synonym:dominationmastery

双语例句

• The first two were promoting good governance, and upholding the supremacy of the law.
  头两条就是促进良政治理和维护法律至上。
• The allies have established air supremacy.
  盟军掌握了制空权。
• Already a similar, politically charged battle for supremacy between America and China looks likely in the2008 Beijing Olympics.
  而现在，美国和中国在2008年奥运会上的霸主之争已经悄然开始了。
• China's intention, it seems, is to show that American supremacy in space is not unassailable.
  看来，中国的目的是在表明美国在太空的霸权并非攻不可破。
• The superpowers will war for supremacy.
  超级大国会为争夺霸权而战。
• American global supremacy is not about to be challenged by China's tinkering with aircraft-carriers.
  美国在全球的霸权无疑将受到中国的修葺中的航母的挑战。
• They were convinced of the supremacy of European Medicines and science.
  他们确信欧洲医术和科学的优势地位。
• You will remember the tension between Britain and Germany over the latter's naval and merchant shipping development, seen as a great challenge to British supremacy.
  是英国和德国之间的紧张形势，在后者的海军和商船航运发展被认为对英国霸权的一个重大挑战。
• He believed that the chief moving force in history was the struggle of different races for supremacy.
  他认为历史的主要动力是不同种族为了争夺霸权而进行的斗争。
• It frets perpetually, sometimes hysterically, about threats to its economic and military supremacy.
  它始终在为其经济和军事霸权所面临的威胁烦恼，有时甚至有些歇斯底里。