democracy

英[d?'m?kr?s?] 美[d?'mɑkr?si]

復數:?democracies;

democracy 民主制

demo-, 人民。-cracy, 管理，統治。

democracy: democracy: [16] Democracy means literally ‘government by the populace at large’. It comes via Old French democratie and medieval Latin dēmocratia from Greek dēmokratíā, a compound formed from demos ‘people’ and -kratíā ‘rule’, a derivative of the noun krátos ‘power, authority’, which has contributed a number of terms for types of government to English.

The original meaning of Greek demos was ‘district, land’, but eventually it came to denote the people living in such a district, particularly the ordinary people considered as a social class participating in government – hence democracy. The derivative democrat [18] was coined in French at the time of the Revolution.
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democracy (n.): 1570s, from Middle French démocratie (14c.), from Medieval Latin democratia (13c.), from Greek demokratia "popular government," from demos "common people," originally "district" (see demotic), + kratos "rule, strength" (see -cracy).
Democracy implies that the man must take the responsibility for choosing his rulers and representatives, and for the maintenance of his own 'rights' against the possible and probable encroachments of the government which he has sanctioned to act for him in public matters. [Ezra Pound, "ABC of Economics," 1933]

1. He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.: 他說議會和民主程序已遭貶值。

2. Professor Baker is unacquainted with the idea of representative democracy.: 貝克教授并不熟悉“代議制民主”這一思想。

3. The person who embodies democracy at the local level is the mayor.: 在地方上代表民主的人是市長。

4. The government has cracked down hard on those campaigning for greater democracy.: 政府嚴厲鎮壓了那些發起運動爭取更廣泛民主的人士。

5. Have they, for example, demonstrated a commitment to democracy?: 例如，他們是否已表現出會致力于民主？