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- of or relating to an empire（与）帝国（有关）的：
Britain's imperial era.
英国的帝国时期。
1.1
- of or relating to an emperor（与）皇帝（有关）的：
the imperial family.
皇族。
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- majestic; magnificent宏伟的, 华丽的：
the bedroom is huge and very imperial.
卧室巨大而华丽。
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- imperious or domineering专横的, 飞扬跋扈的, 作威作福的, 盛气凌人的：
the party and its autocratic-many would say imperial-ways.
这个政党以及它专制的——许多人会说飞扬跋扈的——处事方式。
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- of, relating to, or denoting the system of non-metric weights and measures (the ounce, pound, stone, inch, foot, yard, mile, acre, pint, gallon, etc.) formerly used for all measures in the UK, and still used for some非公制度量衡的, （度量衡）英制的。
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- chiefly historical (of a size of paper) measuring (in the UK) 762 × 559 mm (30×22 inches)〈主史〉（纸张尺寸）（英国）762 × 559 毫米的, 即30 × 22 英寸的。
- a small pointed beard growing below the lower lip (associated with Napoleon Ⅲ of France)（在下唇下的）尖胡须（与法国拿破仑三世有关）。
派生词
imperially
adverb词源
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin imperialis, from imperium 'command， authority， empire'; related to imperare 'to command'. Compare with EMPEROR， EMPIRE, also with IMPERIOUS.