gerontocracy
英式音标：gerontocracy怎么读
美式音标：gerontocracy怎么读
词汇归类： GRE
gerontocracy词义
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n. 老人政治；老人政府
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复数: gerontocracies;形容词: gerontocratic;
中文词源
gerontocracy 老人统治
geront-, 老人。-cracy, 统治，见democracy.
gerontocracy双语例句
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- 1. But in practice Geneva was a patrician gerontocracy, dominated by a few families.
- 但日内瓦事实上是贵族的老龄政府，由一小部分家庭控制的。
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gerontocracy英文词源
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- gerontocracy (n.)
- "rule by old men," 1830, a Latinized compound of Greek stem of geron (genitive gerontos) "old man" (see gerontology) + kratia "rule" (see -cracy). Related: Gerontocratic.