0 a group of families or single people who live and work together sharing possessions and responsibilities -- 公社；群居團體
1 in some countries, a unit of local government -- 公社（某些國家的地方行政單位）
2 to get very close to someone or something by exchanging feelings or thoughts -- 親密交談；交流；接觸；交融
What was still more effective was the right to veto a marriage which the communes and the cantons had assumed.
By contrast, this effect almost completely disappears when urban communes are considered altogether, the weight of 'upwardly mobile' rural communes being insignificant in the total.
The geography of the communes is a historical phenomenon.
Even the smallest communes were now hooked into direct correspondence with the local prefect, who had almost dictatorial control over his appointed department.
The fact that they take part in the election of the four communes does not confer upon them a more advanced civilization.
By contrast, the situation of originaires outside of the communes changed significantly in 1912.
Just as a crisis point for conventional families is the point at which children leave home, so also is it for communes.
Here an attempt was made to strengthen the elected communes.
