简单释义：

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n. 民主；民主国家；民主政体；民主制度

网络 德先生；民主政治；民主主义

变形：

复数：democracies  

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完整释义：

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n.

1.民主政治;民主政体,民主制度;民主主义;民主精神
2.民主国家
3.〔美国〕民主党
4.平民,老百姓
5.自由

un.

1.(新西兰)《民主》月刊

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例句：

1. Messy, frustrating, and more often than not agonizingly slow, India's democracy would seem to be chaotic at the surface.
   杂乱，令人沮丧，而且往往是令人痛苦的缓慢，印度的民主似乎是混乱的表面。

2. The author argues that this definition makes it difficult to determine what precisely constitutes a representative democracy.
   作者在此表明，这个定义使得确定何种因素正好构建了代议制民主这一问题变得困难。

3. Obama wanders into a casual disquisition about the sluggish nature of democracy.
   奥巴摩不经意间谈论起了关于民主政治发展迟缓的话题。

4. He considered the best state to be a polity, which he defined as a common wealth intermediate between oligarchy and democracy.
   他认为最好的国家是一种政治组织，他定义其为一种介于寡头政治和民主政治之间的普遍财富媒介。

5. Fact of the matter is you are able to write this much, is only possible because this great democracy gives you freedom of expression.
   事实上，你可以写这么多，唯一的可能是因为伟大的民主给你言论自由。

6. Voters in a democracy may not know all or even any of the technicalities of running a government, but they surely can judge the results.
   一个民主政体的选民们也许并不通晓运作政府的技巧，甚至对此一无所知，但他们当然可以判断运作的结果好坏。

7. Israel, as well as Arab countries, he said, should adopt Lebanon's government model of democracy, separating church and government.
   以色列，就跟其他阿拉伯国家一样，应该采纳黎巴嫩式的民主制度，将教会与政治两相分离。

8. Quoting the chairman, Pun said his party would not copy any other model of democracy but would establish a unique system suitable to Nepal.
   皮恩引用普拉昌达的话说，他们党不会照抄其它任何形式的民主，而会建立一种专门适合尼泊尔的制度。