Govern

(verb.) direct or strongly influence the behavior of; 'His belief in God governs his conduct'.

(verb.) exercise authority over; as of nations; 'Who is governing the country now?'.

(verb.) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood; 'most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German'.

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• The instrument may be made before the laws which govern its operation are discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Louis, she said, would never have learned to rule if she had not ceased to govern. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• An easy people to govern, in the Parliament and in the Kitchen--that's the moral of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• When a wife's relations interpose against a husband who is a gentleman, who is proud, and who must govern, the consequences are inimical to peace. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Don't act yourself, if you do not like it, but don't expect to govern everybody else. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• To govern a life insurance company, Mr. Steffens argued, was just as much government as to run a city. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A few Socialists were in office set to govern a city with no Socialist hinterland. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Governing his curiosity better than I had governed mine, he passed us without a word, and went on into the house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Beginning with the State, I replied, would you say that a city which is governed by a tyrant is free or enslaved? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This was in the old days when the Patricians alone governed Venice--the common herd had no vote and no voice. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Let us apply the first element in this criterion to a despotically governed state. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A virtuous and laborious people may be cheaply governed. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Community of study and amusement developed the best parts of his character, his steady perseverance, generosity, and well-governed firmness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Yes, but hang it,' says Wegg argumentatively, 'a well-governed mind can be soured sitting! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Governing his curiosity better than I had governed mine, he passed us without a word, and went on into the house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Cuba is now an independent self-governing republic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The scene marks the complete demoralization of the old Roman governing body. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Dentist's chairs have been developed until it is only necessary for the operator to turn a valve governing a fluid, generally oil, under pressure to raise or lower the chair and the patient. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• An autocracy would no doubt have been admissible as a fully self-governing democracy with a franchise limited to one person. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It may be the governing of a city, or teaching school, or running a business. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• India figured--presumably as a fully self-governing state! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Them that governs mun find a way to help us; they mun make fresh orderations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They held that stri ct law governs the apparently erratic movements of the heavenly bodies. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Behold how hideously he governs! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I have lived, sir, a long time: and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, _That_ GOD _governs in the affairs of men_! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• You have never worked for hunger, or you would know what god governs us. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The same law governs the construction of the mouths and limbs of crustaceans. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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