| 释义 |
king/kiŋ/ n. & v.●n. 1 (as a title usu. 作称号时通常作 King) a male sovereign, esp. the hereditary ruler of an independent state 君主，国王(尤指独立国家的世袭统治者) 2 a person or thing pre-eminent in a specified field or class (某令域、某界)大王，巨子；重要事物，首屈一指者 railway king 铁路大王 3 (作 attrib.) a large (or the largest) kind of plant, animal, etc. (植物、动物等)大的(或最大的) king penguin 帝王企鹅 4 Chess the piece on each side which the opposing side has to checkmate to win 【棋类】(国际象棋的)王 5 a piece in draughts with extra capacity for moving, made by crowning an ordinary piece that has reached the opponent's baseline (国际跳棋的)王棋(抵对方底线升为王的棋子) 6 a court card bearing a representation of a king and usu. ranking next below an ace (人头牌中的) K (通常地位仅次于 A 纸牌) 7 (作 the King) (in the UK) the national anthem when there is a male sovereign (当英国由国王统治时的)国歌 8 (作 Kings or Books of Kings) two Old Testament books dealing with history, esp. of the kingdom of Judah (《圣经·旧约》中的)《列王记上》，《列王记下》(尤指犹太王国的历史) ●v. tr. make (a person) king 立(某人)为王 □ king it 1 play or act the king 占统治地位；称王称霸 2 (usu. foll. by 通常后跟 over) govern, control 统治；掌管；控制 □ kinghood n.□ kingless adj.□ kinglike adj.□ kingly adj.□ kingliness n.□ kingship n.[Old English cyning, cyng, from Germanic] |