overlords

英 [ˈəʊvəlɔːdz]

美 [ˈoʊvərˌlɔrdz]

n.  (尤指旧时的)领主，庄主，大王
overlord的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 霸主；巨头
  If you refer to someone as anoverlord, you mean that they have great power and are likely to use it in a bad way.
  1. We really don't want to be the overlords of the Palestinian population...
     我们真的并不希望成为巴勒斯坦人民的太上皇。
  2. The running of Welsh rugby was left in chaos yesterday after a vote of no confidence in the game's overlords.
     昨天，在对威尔士橄榄球界几位巨头投了不信任票后，该运动的管理陷入一片混乱。
• N-COUNT （旧时的）君主，领主
  In former times, anoverlordwas someone who had power over many people.
  1. Henry II was the first king to be recognized as overlord of Ireland.
     亨利二世是第一位被承认为爱尔兰领主的国王。

双语例句

• We must not catch the bad habit of "acting as overlords".
  我们不应该染上“当官做老爷”的坏习气。
• Foreign car overlords enter China one after another, meanwhile, the homogeneity of the car products is strengthened progressively with increase of the style, the selling market of the domestic car has already been changed to the buyer's market fast from the seller's market.
  国外汽车霸主纷纷进入中国，与此同时，汽车产品的同质化随着车型的增多而逐步加强，国内汽车销售市场已经由卖方市场快速地向买方市场转变。
• We cadres are ordinary workers and not overlords sitting on the backs of the people.
  我们干部是普通劳动者，不是骑在人民头上的老爷。
• He wouldn't have been a favorite of some of the recent Baptist overlords or today's conservative talk-show hosts, but I sure liked talking to him.
  对最近的浸礼会大佬或当今保守派脱口秀主持人来说，他不可能得到他们的欢心，但我真的很喜欢和他交谈。
• Typically, the main beneficiaries of such policies have not been national economies, but the managers of strategic companies and their bureaucratic overlords.
  通常情况下，这些政策的主要受益方并不是国民经济，而是战略企业的管理层和他们的官僚上级。
• Their early overlords, the Mongols, ruling China as the Yuan dynasty, sailed to the Amur's mouth and crossed to Sakhalin.
  他们早期的蒙古领主（中国元代的统治者）曾经顺流而下到达黑龙江的入海口，并且穿越到达了库页岛。
• These questions have long attracted the attention of Sinologists, and a similar confusion between China and Cathay can also be observed among the pioneering generation of early Western explorers and their overlords.
  长期以来，这个词一直在困扰着中国学者，而地理大发现初期的西方君主，也对China与Cathay之间是否有关系感到迷惑。
• Political background is: the spring and autumn period, royal majesty has collapsed, all want to be fierce struggle of central overlords.
  政治背景是：春秋时期，周王室的威严已经一落千丈，中原各诸侯国之间斗争激烈，都想做中原霸主。
• In that mock epic, the manacled, nearly naked Charlton Heston is rated an interesting specimen by a variety of simian overlords.
  电影中，CharltonHeston被种类繁多、济济为患的猿猴们俘虏，他戴着脚镣，近乎赤裸，并被看作是一个有趣的外物种标本。
• SD: I've seen many people take her out, at certain moments, combined with Overlords generating creep.
  我见过不少玩家在某一特定时间，利用领主制造地衣，用女王进攻。