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establishment

英 [ɪ'stæblɪʃm(ə)nt; e-] 美 [ɪ'stæblɪʃmənt]

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解释

n. 确立，制定；公司；设施

※ 提供单词"establishment"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

establishment 建立，大型机构

来自establish, 建立。

英文词源

establishment (n.): late 15c., "settled arrangement," also "income, property," from establish + -ment. Meaning "established church" is from 1731; Sense of "place of business" is from 1832. Meaning "social matrix of ruling people and institutions" is attested occasionally from 1923, consistently from 1955.

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例句和用法

1. The fusty old establishment refused to recognise the demand for popular music.: 这一古板的老旧机构拒绝承认人们对流行音乐的需求。

2. Although things are changing the medical establishment is still overwhelmingly male.: 虽然世易时移，但医学界依然是男性的天下。

3. Shopkeepers would once have been pillars of the Tory establishment.: 商店店主一度本该成为保守党统治集团的重要支柱。

4. He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.: 他对任何与文学界权威沾边的事都嗤之以鼻。

5. What do you expect? This is the Establishment we're taking on.: 你还期望什么？我们要应对的是“权威”。