hegemony: [16] Hegemony ‘dominating influence of one nation over another’ etymologically denotes ‘leadership’. It was borrowed from Greek hēgemoníā ‘authority, rule’, a derivative of the verb hegeisthai ‘lead’ (to which English seek is distantly related). => seek
hegemony (n.)
1560s, from Greek hegemonia "leadership, a leading the way, a going first;" also "the authority or sovereignty of one city-state over a number of others," as Athens in Attica, Thebes in Boeotia; from hegemon "leader," from hegeisthai "to lead," perhaps originally "to track down," from PIE *sag-eyo-, from root *sag- "to seek out, track down, trace" (see seek). Originally of predominance of one city state or another in Greek history; in reference to modern situations from 1860, at first of Prussia in relation to other German states.
实用例句
1. The final key to Europe's world hegemony was her military superiority.
决定欧洲的世界霸权的地位的最终关键是其军事优势.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. We will never seek hegemony.
我们永远不称霸.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3. Britain, France, the United States and Japan all aspired to hegemony after the end of World War I.
第一次世界大战后,英 、 法 、 美、日都想争夺霸权.
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4. China will never seek hegemony and never go in for expansion.
中国永远不称霸,永远不搞扩张.
来自汉英非文学 - 十六大报告
5. British seapower, after two centuries of hegemony, vanished from the Indian Ocean.
