confederacy

• n. 联盟；联邦；私党

con-, 强调。-fed, 相信，信任，词源同faith, confide.

confederacy (n.)

late 14c., from Anglo-French confederacie (Old French confederacie), from stem of Latin confoederatio, from confoederare (see confederate). Earliest in reference to leagues of classical Greek states (Aetolian, Achaean, etc.), later of the Netherlands. The word was used of the United States of America under (and in) the Articles of Confederation (1777-1788). In reference to the breakaway Confederate States of America (1861-1865) from 1861.

Confederacy now usually implies a looser or more temporary association than confederation, which is applied to a union of states organized on an intentionally permanent basis. [OED]

来自柯林斯例句

2. This bond of kin represented the real basis of the confederacy.

这种血缘亲属关系是联盟的真实基础。

来自辞典例句

3. Does the Confederacy mean nothing to you at all? "

难道南部联盟对你就毫无意义?

来自飘（部分）

4. " Don't you go throwing the Confederacy in my face!

" 你犯不着用南部联盟来压我嘛!

来自飘（部分）

5. A man who fought for the Confederacy can't be all bad.

一个为南部联盟战斗过的人是不会坏到哪里去的.

来自飘（部分）