anarchy

• n. 無政府状態、混沌、無秩序。

接頭辞an-、なしで、なしに。根源 arch、支配する、統治する。

anarchy (n.)

1530s, from French anarchie or directly from Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhia "lack of a leader, the state of people without a government" (in Athens, used of the Year of Thirty Tyrants, 404 B.C., when there was no archon), noun of state from anarkhos "rulerless," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + arkhos "leader" (see archon).

Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you! [Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)]

1. He had been swept aside in the whirlwind of reform and anarchy .

改革と無政府状態が織り成す混乱の嵐の中で、彼はそっぽを向かれ、誰も相手にしなかった。

2.Economic anarchy scourged the post-war world.

経済混乱は戦後の世界を水の泡にした。

3.The overthrow of the military regime was followed by a period of anarchy .

軍事統治政権が崩壊した後、しばらくの間無政府状態が続いた。

4.There would be anarchy if we had no police.

警察がいなければ、社会は無法地帯になる。

5.If prices rise the country could slide into anarchy .

物価が上昇すると、国が混乱状態に陥る可能性がある。