govern

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡʌv.ən/    美 /ˈɡʌv.ɚn/|/ˈɡɐv.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of governing
动词 v.
  1. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. transitive
    — The old king governed the land wisely.
  2. To exercise political authority; to run a government. intransitive
    — Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.
  3. To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. transitive
    — Govern yourselves like civilized people.
  4. To exercise a deciding or determining influence on. transitive
    — Chance governs the outcome of many card games.
  5. To have or exercise a determining influence. intransitive
  6. To handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.). obsolete,transitive
  7. To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate. transitive
    — a valve that governs fuel intake
  8. To direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer. obsolete,transitive
  9. To look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant). obsolete,transitive
    — from my vncles country of Medea, Where all my youth I haue bene gouerned, […]
  10. To manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device). obsolete,transitive
  11. To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word. transitive
    — In Latin (Russian, German, etc.), not only verbs, but also prepositions, may govern the noun, pronoun or noun-phrase dependent upon them in a particular case: e.g. ad urbem, ‘to the city’ (ad ‘takes the accusative’: urbem) v. ab urbe, ‘from the city’ (ab ‘takes the ablative’: urbe).

词形变化

governs present,singular,third-person governing participle,present governed participle,past governed past governs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cogovern e-govern governable governate governee governless misgovern overgovern self-govern
相关词
governance governess government governor

词源

词源 1
From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubernō, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, drive, govern”). Displaced native Old English wealdan, whence modern dialectical English wald (“to govern”).
词源 2
From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubernō, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, drive, govern”). Displaced native Old English wealdan, whence modern dialectical English wald (“to govern”).
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