reign over
collocation统治；管辖
Queen Victoria reigned over Britain for over sixty years.
维多利亚女王统治英国六十多年。
统治；当政
reigns — third person singular of reign
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统治；当政
To rule as a monarch; to exercise sovereign power.
Queen Elizabeth I reigned for 45 years.
伊丽莎白一世女王统治了45年。
行使主权,作为君主统治。
To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
成为最近一次比赛的获胜者。
To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
成为一个地方或情况的主导特征；占优势,主导,统治。
To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
reign
Base
原形
reigns
3rd person
第三人称单数
reigning
-ing
现在分词
reigned
Past
过去式
reigned
Past participle
过去分词
The queen reigns over the kingdom.
女王统治着这个王国。
He reigned for decades.
他统治了几十年。
The monarch is currently reigning.
君主目前正在统治。
规则动词
In a constitutional monarchy, the king reigns but does not rule.
在君主立宪制中，国王虽为君主但不执政。
Chaos reigned in the city after the earthquake.
地震后，城市里一片混乱。
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统治；管辖
Queen Victoria reigned over Britain for over sixty years.
维多利亚女王统治英国六十多年。
现任冠军；卫冕冠军
The reigning champion has yet to be defeated this season.
卫冕冠军本赛季尚未被击败。
占主导地位；处于支配地位
In her paintings, color reigns supreme.
在她的画作中，色彩占据主导地位。
一片混乱；混乱占主导
After the announcement, chaos reigned in the crowded hall.
公告发布后，拥挤的大厅里一片混乱。
占主导地位；称霸
In the world of search engines, Google still reigns supreme.
在搜索引擎领域，谷歌仍然占据主导地位。
铁腕统治；专制统治
The queen reigned with an iron fist, and no one dared to oppose her.
女王实行铁腕统治，没人敢反对她。
恐怖统治时期
The town was under a reign of terror after the gang took control.
帮派掌控后，镇上陷入了恐怖统治时期。
宁在地狱称王，也不在天堂为仆。
Satan's defiant line from John Milton's epic poem 'Paradise Lost', where 'reign' means to rule as a monarch. It means it is better to be a leader in a worse place than a servant in a better one.
这是约翰·弥尔顿史诗《失乐园》中撒旦的反叛台词，此处'reign'意为“作为君主统治”。意思是宁做困境中的领袖，也不做安逸之地的仆从。
他要作雅各家的王，直到永远；他的国也没有穷尽。
The angel Gabriel's announcement to Mary in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:33) about Jesus, using 'reign' to mean 'rule as king'.
在《路加福音》1章33节中，天使加百列向马利亚宣告耶稣时将作王，此处'reign'意为“作王统治”。
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记忆联想：reign 与 rain（雨）同音，把词中 g 想象成国王的权杖——国王在雨中执杖统治，便是 reign。
语域：mixed 常见场景：历史叙述、体育报道、文学描写 reign 的不同义项使用语境不同：表示“君主统治”时偏正式，常见于历史叙述；表示“卫冕”时多见于体育报道；表示“盛行、弥漫”时多用于文学或书面描写。口语中不常用。
rain、rein、train、brain 都读 /reɪn/，与 reign 押韵；注意 rein 是 reign 的同音异形词。foreign /ˈfɒrən/ 和 sovereign /ˈsɒvrɪn/ 虽然拼写中都含有 reign，但发音并不相同，不能读成 /reɪn/。
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