Despot

(n.) A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.

(n.) One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.

录入:丽贝卡

• It prefers the rule of its fri ends to the rule of a despot. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• If I were to meet that most unparalleled despot in the streets to-morrow, I would fell him like a rotten tree! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The Emperor of Morocco is a soulless despot, and the great officers under him are despots on a smaller scale. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• My mother never could endure him, nor I; but he obtained an entire ascendency over my father; and this man was the absolute despot of the estate. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Paul: never, in others, a more waspish little despot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• O, my dear brethren and fellow-sojourners in Vanity Fair, which among you does not know and suffer under such benevolent despots? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The Emperor of Morocco is a soulless despot, and the great officers under him are despots on a smaller scale. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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