hegemony

• n. 覇権、リーダーシップ、同盟関係

ギリシャ語のhegemon、指導者、PIE*sagのseek, seeker, pathfinderが語源で、語源的にはseek, sagaciousと同じである。

hegemony

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).
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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.

1. The final key to Europe 's world hegemony was her military superiority.

ヨーロッパの世界覇権の地位を決定する最終的な鍵はその軍事的優位性である。

2.We will never seek hegemony .

私たちは永遠に制覇しません。

3.Britain，France，the United States and Japan all aspired to hegemony after the end of World War I.

第一次世界大戦後、英、仏、米、日は覇権を争いたいと思っていた。

4.China will never seek hegemony and never go in for expansion.

中国は永遠に覇を唱えず、永遠に拡張しない。dd>
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5.British seapower，after two centuries of hegemony ，vanished from the Indian Ocean.

2世紀の覇権を握った英国海軍は、インド洋に姿を消した。