governor

英 ['g?v(?)n?] 美['ɡ?v?n?]

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復(fù)數(shù):?governors;

governor (n.): c. 1300, gouernour, "personal keeper, protector, guide;" late 14c., "one who governs, a ruler," from Old French governeor "prince, ruler, administrator; helmsman" (11c., Modern French gouverneur) and directly from Latin gubernatorem (nominative gubernator) "director, ruler, governor," originally "steersman, pilot" (see govern). Meaning "subordinate ruler; head of a province, etc." is from late 14c. Meaning "one charged with direction or control of an institution, etc." is from late 14c. Mechanical sense of "self-acting regulator" is from 1819. The adjective gubernatorial remembers the Latin form. There is a record of English governator from 1520s.

1. Duke was soundly defeated in this month's Louisiana governor's race.: 杜克在本月的路易斯安那州長(zhǎng)競(jìng)選中大敗而歸。

3. He was widely respected as a wise and statesmanlike governor.: 他作為一位睿智、具備政治家才干的州長(zhǎng)而廣受尊崇。

4. The man immediately responsible for this misery is the province's governor.: 對(duì)這種不幸境況負(fù)有直接責(zé)任的人是該省的省長(zhǎng)。

5. They must choose between two evenly matched candidates for governor.: 他們必須在兩位不相上下的州長(zhǎng)候選人之間作出選擇。