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"Hold sway over" nghĩa là gì?
21 Jun, 2015
Elizabeth Liberty stopping Captain Obama and tidal wave of trade agreements. Photo courtesy DonkeyHotey.
'Hold sway over sb' có từ hold là nắm giữ và sway là sự thống trị, cai trị; vì thế cụm từ này nghĩa là thống trị ai (dominate, have a controlling influence over*).
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In much of the region between Europe and China, Islam’s different universal concept of world order held sway, with its own vision of a single divinely sanctioned governance uniting and pacifying the world.
The areas Islam had conquered or where it held sway over tribute-paying non-Muslims were conceived as a single political unit: dar al- Islam, the “House of Islam,” or the realm of peace.
The areas Islam had conquered or where it held sway over tribute-paying non-Muslims were conceived as a single political unit: dar al- Islam, the “House of Islam,” or the realm of peace.
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* This idiom uses the noun sway in the sense of “power” or “dominion,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.
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