What is a republic?

Question

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Answer 1

republic: [ ri\'pʌblik ]

n. 共和国,共和政体

例句与用法:
1. An official policy of racial segregation practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
种族隔离制南非共和国实行的一种官方的种族隔离政策，包括在政治、法律和经济诸方面对非白色人种的歧视

2. After the founding of the People\'s Republic of China entered upon a new historical stage.
人民共和国成立后，中国就进入了一个新的历史时期。

3. The People\'s Republic of China will be represented by the largest sports delegation ever sent abroad.
中华人民共和国将派出一个规模空前的体育代表团（参加这次运动会）。

4. Most republic have president as head of state.
大多数共为国国家以总统为国家元首。

英英解释:
名词republic:

1. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
同义词：democracy, commonwealth

2. a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch本回答被网友采纳

Answer 2

第一种
n.

A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
A nation that has such a political order.

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.
A nation that has such a political order.
often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.
[French république, from Old French, from Latin rēspūblica : rēs, thing + pūblica, feminine of pūblicus, of the people; see public.]

第二种
Form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives elected by its populace. The term was originally applied to a form of government in which the leader is periodically appointed under a constitution; it was contrasted with governments in which leadership is hereditary. A republic may also be distinguished from direct democracy, though modern representative democracies are by and large republics.

Answer 3

re‧pub‧lic
[countable]
a country governed by elected representatives of the people, and led by a president, not a king or queen [↪ democracy, monarchy]:

the former Federal Republic of Germany
Nine republics took part in the referendum.

参考资料：Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Answer 4

什么是共和国?