control 含义广泛的常用词，指对人或物施以约束或控制的力量。
direct 侧重行使领导或指导权。
govern 侧重指运用任何控制的权力来统治或管理一个国家、一个社会或一个部门，暗含能力和知识的运用。
manage 强调对具体事务机构进行管理，有时含受权管理或处理之意。
rule 强调用绝对或独裁的权力来管理或统治。
supervise 侧重指运用本身的或被授予的权力来管理、检查工作，含监督意味。
administer 指官方的或正式的对事务的管理。
参考例句
1. The general manager directed the company through a difficult time. 总经理带领公司渡过了难关。
2. Please direct me to the nearest bank? 请你指示我附近银行在那里?
3. Direct and some metal composition chlorides of chlorine under the moist circumstance . 氯在潮湿的情况下直接与某些金属合成氯化物。
英英解释
v.
1. command with authority
2. intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
3. guide the actors in (plays and films)
4. be in charge of
5. take somebody somewhere
6. cause to go somewhere
7. aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment
8. lead, as in the performance of a composition
9. give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
10. specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
11. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
12. put an address on (an envelope)
13. plan and direct (a complex undertaking) adj.
1. direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
2. having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
3. extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action
4. in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
5. moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direct
6. similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
7. (of a current) flowing in one direction only
8. being an immediate result or consequence
9. in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
10. lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact adv.
1. without deviation
