柯林斯詞典city-state 1. N a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies. Among the most famous are the great independent cities of the ancient world, such as Athens, Sparta, Carthage, Thebes, Corinth, and Rome 城邦; 由一個(gè)自治市及其屬地組成的主權(quán)國(guó)家,如雅典、羅馬等 返回 city-states