gerontocracy
英 [,d?er?n't?kr?s?]
美 [,d??r?n'tɑkr?si]
中文詞源
gerontocracy 老人統治geront-, 老人。-cracy, 統治，見democracy.
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. But in practice Geneva was a patrician gerontocracy, dominated by a few families.
- 但日內瓦事實上是貴族的老齡政府，由一小部分家庭控制的。
來自辭典例句