1.[countableC, uncountableU]PG government by a ruler who has complete power 独裁,专制,专政► see thesaurus at government
2.[countableC]PG a country that is ruled by one person who has complete power 独裁国家
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dictatorship• Britain in mid-1979 was unlikely to lurch into any drastictransformation, let alone a dictatorship.• This was to have a United Nations as a world policeman, able to intervene against dictatorships which threaten other countries.• How do we explain the rise in Europeandictatorship in the 1930s?• Is dictatorship more easily defined than democracy?• Everything is now in place for a rigged election that seems likely to usher in a militarydictatorship.• In 1971, the country's 10 year military dictatorship came to an end.• The political difficulties included the moraldictatorship of Pandit Nehru and his family, which posedformidablesuccession problems.• That is carried to such an extreme that we will recognise dictatorships and ignore the coups which bring some despots to power.• Ethiopia's dictatorship was toppled by Eritrean and Ethiopian rebels.• Residencepermits are a remnant of Stalin's dictatorship.• Despite the dictatorship, majorunrest broke out.• Pressphotos by Nancy Urrut a dating from 1980 give an appallingview into what daily life in the dictatorship looked like.• The country has been moving toward dictatorship.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + DICTATORSHIP | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤communist, fascist共產黨專政;法西斯獨裁▸➤left-wing, right-wing左派專政;右派獨裁▸➤military軍事獨裁▸➤totalitarian極權主義獨裁▸➤brutal, repressive殘酷的/嚴厲的專政▸➤benevolent仁慈的專政VERB + DICTATORSHIP➤establish, set up建立獨裁統治◇The generals established a military dictatorship.將軍們建立了軍事獨裁統治。➤support支持獨裁統治▸➤overthrow推翻獨裁◇They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship.他們成功推翻了法西斯獨裁統治。PREPOSITION➤during a/the dictatorship在獨裁統治期間◇the atrocities that took place during his dictatorship在他獨裁期間發生的暴行➤under (a/the) dictatorship在獨裁統治之下◇These men had all lived under dictatorship.這些人都曾經生活在獨裁統治之下。