"one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy"; "the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen"
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N-COUNT An oligarchy is a small group of people who control and run a particular country or organization. You can also refer to a country which is governed in this way as an oligarchy. 寡头统治集团; 寡头统治国家
N-UNCOUNT Oligarchy is a situation in which a country or organization is run by an oligarchy. 寡头统治
...a protest against imperialism and oligarchy in the region.
...对该地区帝国主义和寡头统治的抗议。
If the land isn't taken up by large oligarchies life slaveholding class--then the small guy has a chance.
如果土地没有被大的垄断方占有,奴隶阶级,弱小的一方就仍会有希望
Now those oligarchies were based on different things, and that's where the rub came.
但这些寡头是建立在不同基础之上的,正是这一点导致了双方的摩擦
You could argue that both sides had essentially the same kind of oligarchies.
你就可以看出他们双方,都有点寡头主义本质
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