anarchy

• n. 无政府状态；混乱；无秩序

前缀an-, 没有，无。词根arch,统治，管理。

1. a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)

anarchy (n.)

1530s, from French anarchie or directly from Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhia "lack of a leader, the state of people without a government" (in Athens, used of the Year of Thirty Tyrants, 404 B.C., when there was no archon), noun of state from anarkhos "rulerless," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + arkhos "leader" (see archon).

Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you! [Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)]

The overthrow of the military regime was followed by a period of anarchy.

军事统治政权被推翻以后，接着是一段时期的无政府状态。

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There was complete anarchy in the classroom when their usual teacher was away.

任课老师不在时，班上一片混乱。

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In June, 1960, the Congo was plunged into five years of civil war and political anarchy.

1960年的6月，刚果陷入了5年的内战和政治上的无政府状态。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Civil war and famine sent the nation plunging into anarchy.

内战和饥荒使该国陷入了无政府状态。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

谁否认它,谁就必然走向无政府或专制.

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When the president is assassinate, the country fall into anarchy.

当总统被刺杀后, 国家陷于无政府状态.

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There would be anarchy if we had no police.

要是没有警察,社会就会无法无天.

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If prices rise the country could slide into anarchy.

如果物价上涨,国家将有可能陷入混乱状态.

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If we do not have strong government , there will be rioting and anarchy.

我们若不加强控制就会出现动乱和无政府状态.

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A democracy of autonomous, evolving machines will be similarly feared as Anarchy Plus.

同样,给自治的 、 进化的机器以民主,也会引发人们对新无政府主义的担忧.

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The country was thrown into a state of anarchy.

这国家那时一下子陷入无政府状态.

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The primitive anarchy which precedes law is worse than law.

在没有法律以前,原始的无政府状态比法律更坏.

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A democracy of autonomous , evolving machines will be similarly feared Anarchy Plus.

自治下的民主, 机器社会的成员也会有类似担心.

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So democracy without the rule of law, or freedom without the rule of law, is anarchy.

没有法治的民主, 或者没有法治的自由就是无政府状态.

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Anarchy reigned for many years.

无政府状态持续了许多年.

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Any system that cedes those rights will lead to anarchy.

任何割让那些权利的体制都将导致政治混乱.

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But democracy, with anarchy is only as powerful as its human components.

但是民主在无政府状态下,其权威取决于其人员构成.

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If law and order break down, anarchy will result.

法治一垮, 就会出现无政府状态.

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This is simply bringing anarchy into the army, and flinging victory away.

是谓乱军引胜.

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When democracy was first proposed and, many reasonable people rightly feared it as worse than anarchy.

当初,有人提出要实行民主制的时候, 许多理性的人们确实担心它甚至还不如无政府主义.

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The overthrow of the regime was followed by a period of anarchy.

那政权被推翻以后,有一段时期是无政府状态.

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International anarchy has always been apriori premise and logic departure of western IRs.

国际无政府状态历来是西方主流国际关系理论的先验给定和逻辑起点.

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I read some pamphlets on anarchy.

我读了一些关于无政府主义的小册子.

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Until recently a beacon of Asian pluralism, Thailand is sliding into anarchy.

作为亚洲多元政体的典范的泰国,正陷入无政府状态.

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Such, if allowed to continue, would lead inevitably to anarchy and wholesale discontent.

这种状况如果继续发展下去, 势将带来无政府主义,并引起普遍的不满情绪.

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We still do; living in a world in which underclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.

我们仍然有这种感觉; 生活在一个不宣而战的侵略 、 战争 、 虚伪 、 诈骗 、 混乱以及迫在眉睫的杀戮充斥着我们日常生活的世界里, 我们都想有一种能赖以生存的准则.

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Was anarchy, then , on the point of now descending from on high?

现在无政府状态是否也将从天而降 呢 ?

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Anarchy Decor: Anarchy Decor create a lot of anarchy.

混乱装饰物: 它能制造十分混乱的状态.

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The overthrow of the military regime was followed by a period of anarchy.

军事统治政权被推翻以后，接着是一段时期的无政府状态。

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