名詞 republic:

1. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
   同義詞：democracy, commonwealth
2. a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch

1. Most republic have president as head of state.
   大多數(shù)共為國國家以總統(tǒng)為國家元首。
2. The People's Republic of China will be represented by the largest sports delegation ever sent abroad.
   中華人民共和國將派出一個規(guī)模空前的體育代表團(參加這次運動會)。
3. After the founding of the People's Republic of China entered upon a new historical stage.
   人民共和國成立后，中國就進入了一個新的歷史時期。
4. An official policy of racial segregation practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
   種族隔離制南非共和國實行的一種官方的種族隔離政策，包括在政治、法律和經(jīng)濟諸方面對非白色人種的歧視

re.pub.lic

n.Abbr. rep.,Rep.,Repub.（名詞）縮寫 rep.,Rep.,Repub.

A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
共和政體：一種國家首腦不是君主并在當(dāng)今社會通常為總統(tǒng)的政治體制
A nation that has such a political order.
共和國：具有該政治體制的國家

A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
共和政體：一種最高權(quán)力掌握在有權(quán)投票選舉對其負責(zé)的官員和代表的室民團體的政治體制
A nation that has such a political order.
共和國：具有該政治體制的國家
Often Republic A specific republican government of a nation:
常作 Republic 共和政府：某個國家的某一特定的共和政府：
例句：
the Fourth Republic of France.
法蘭西第四共和國

An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
加盟共和國：一個屬于某一最高聯(lián)邦政府的且在政治上和領(lǐng)土上具有自治權(quán)或部分自治權(quán)的單位
A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field:
團體：在同一范圍或領(lǐng)域內(nèi)具有平等權(quán)利的一群人：
例句：
the republic of letters.
文學(xué)界

來源：
French république
法語 république
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Latin rôspôblica
源自 拉丁語 rôspôblica
rôs [thing] * see rô-
rôs [事物] *參見 rô-
pôblica [feminine of] pôblicus [of the people] * see public
pôblica [] pôblicus的陰性詞 [人們的] *參見 public