gerontocracy

英汉释义

• n.

  1.老人政府;老人统治

  2.老人组成的统治集团

英英释义

• n.

  1.a system of government in which the elders are chosen as rulers

  2.a group of elders who make up a government

英汉例句

• 1.But business, too, is often a slow-moving gerontocracy, hidebound by a reluctance to let creative inpiduals make quick decisions.

  不过日本商界常常也是一个行动迟缓、处在老人统治下的领域，固守着一种不愿令富有创造力的个人快速作出决断的心态。

• 2.Although the population is now mainly black or mulatto and young, its rulers form a mainly white gerontocracy.

  尽管全国人口现在主要是年轻的黑种人或黑白混血儿，他们的领导人却形成了一个以白人为主的老人政权。

• 3.Unlike Spain, moreover, Italy is a gerontocracy where the young feel politically stymied.

  再者意大利不象西班牙，它实行的是让年轻人在政治上感觉阻碍的老人政治。

• 4.A gerontocracy: The President is elected, but only those over 45 (retirement age) can vote.

  一个老年人政府：总统是选举的，但是只有45岁（退休年龄）以上的人才可以投票。

• 5.He denounces "gerontocracy" and "fiscal child abuse" .

  他谴责政府为“老人政府”及“财政上虐待儿童”。

• 6.The phenomenon of gerontocracy has existed for millennia because the young are accustomed to following the aged.

  因为年轻人习惯于跟从老年人，所以老年政权现象得以存在了几个世纪的时间。

• 7.The first is that it is a gerontocracy.

  首先，它是一个老人政府。

• 8.What do we want? A gerontocracy

  我们想做什么？老人治理