throne• On our retreat in the last year of school, a visiting priest talked to us from Sister Superior's throne.• Charlemagne's stonethrone in the Octagon at Aachen Cathedral.• The Church took the lead in rallying the forces which drove out the poles and established the Romanovs on the throne.• Oedipus of course resigned the throne.• When Charles I came to the throne, Calvert resigned, but he did not lose favor.• Or any other pretenders to the throne.• After he had gone his two sons asserted their right to the throne, and each tried to be made king.
Originthrone
(1100-1200)Old Frenchtrone, from Latinthronus, from Greekthronos
ADJECTIVE | VERB + THRONE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤empty, vacant空缺的王位▸➤imperial, papal, royal帝王的/教皇的/王室的寶座VERB + THRONE➤ascend, assume, come to, gain, inherit, succeed to, take登基;獲得王位;繼承王位;即位◇Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558.伊麗莎白一世於 1558 年即位。➤claim聲稱有權即位▸➤seize, usurp奪取王位;篡位▸➤occupy佔據王位▸➤abdicate, give up, renounce遜位;放棄王位;退位▸➤lose失去王位▸➤reclaim, regain復辟;重新獲得王位▸➤put sb on把某人推上王位▸➤topple sb from推翻某人的君主統治◇Left-wing revolutionaries toppled the king from his throne.左翼革命分子推翻了國王的統治。➤restore sb to使復辟;恢復某人的王位▸➤be in line to在繼承王位的順序中◇The prince is second in line to the throne behind his brother.這位王子是王位第二順位繼承人,排在他哥哥之後。PREPOSITION➤on the throne在位◇Queen Victoria remained on the throne for over sixty years.維多利亞女王在位六十多年。PHRASES➤sb's accession to the throne某人登基▸➤a claimant to the throne, a pretender to the throne要求繼承王位者;覬覦王位者◇a claimant to the vacant Spanish throne聲稱對空缺的西班牙王位擁有繼承權者➤sb's claim to the throne, sb's right to the throne某人的王位繼承要求/權利➤an heir to the throne王位繼承人◇The marriage failed to produce an heir to the throne.這樁婚姻未能產生王位繼承人。➤the power behind the throne (figurative) 垂簾聽政者◇The managing director's secretary is the real power behind the throne.總經理秘書才是背後的實權人物。➤the succession to the throne繼承王位