leading light

英 [ˌliːdɪŋ ˈlaɪt]

美 [ˌliːdɪŋ ˈlaɪt]

n.  (某活动范围内)重要的活跃人物，受敬重的人物

牛津词典

noun

• （某活动范围内）重要的活跃人物，受敬重的人物
  an important, active or respected person in a particular area of activity
  1. She's one of the leading lights in the opera world.
     她是歌剧界的一位大腕。

柯林斯词典

• 显赫人物；积极分子；中流砥柱
  If you say that someone is aleading lightin an organization, campaign, or community, you mean that they are one of the most important, active, enthusiastic, and successful people in it.

英英释义

noun

• a celebrity who is an inspiration to others
  1. he was host to a large gathering of luminaries
  Synonym:luminaryguiding lightnotablenotability

双语例句

• The electro-optical compensation is used to decrease the unstability of light intensity in traditional method by leading into reference light.
  传统的办法是采用引入参考光路，利用光电补偿方法，来减小光源波动造成的影响。
• She is the leading light in the local dramatic society and always has the main part in their plays.
  她是本地戏剧界重要人物，而且在演出中她始终演主角。
• She was a leading light in their campaign.
  她是他们这次活动中的重要人物。
• He was the son of a left-wing writer from Zhejiang province, a leading light in Proletarian Writers for Purity and the editor of Liberation Daily, Shanghai's main newspaper.
  姚出生于浙江一个左翼作家的家庭，作为上海主要报纸，解放日报的编辑，作家协会的骨干，他的历史是清白的。
• The conclusion we can make is as follow: Through simple sol-gel process, nitrogen and neodymium as Nd3+ can be incorporated into crystal lattice of TiO2, leading to its response to visible light.
  结论如下：通过简单的溶胶-凝胶法，氮和钕可以掺杂进入TiO2晶格，导致在可见光下有响应。
• A leading light of the contemporary Scottish folk scene, Emily Smith's powerful, clear vocals have gained her award winning, worldwide recognition.
  一个领先的当代苏格兰民谣歌唱秀赛会现场，埃米莉史密斯的展现强大的歌艺，清晰的嗓音使获得了获奖，举世公认。
• Cymer, Inc.," the world's leading supplier of excimer light sources," headquartered in San Diego, has publicized more recent successes in the same vein.
  总部设于SanDiego的Cymer，Inc.，是世界领先的准分子光源供应商，它在最近也宣布取得了类似的成功。
• And he is confident Barclays Wealth can be a leading light, "a real game changer" with the "A-Team" he has built up since moving from investment banking at the beginning of 2006.
  同时，他相信，由于他2006年从投行业务调任这里后建立了一支“一流的团队”，巴克莱财富能够成为一个行业领导者，“一个真正的游戏规则改革者”。
• Howard Segal, an historian at the University of Maine, says the movement imploded when its leading light, Howard Scott, was unmasked as a failed wax salesman, not the great engineer he claimed to be.
  缅因大学历史学家霍华德·西格尔说当运动的指明灯霍华德·斯科特东窗事发像一个失败的蜡推销员，而不是他宣称的伟大的工程师，这个运动就破灭了。
• The vetting mechanism favoured by the chancellery and economics ministry, which are leading the drafting, could be described as a light version of Washington's Cfius, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the US.
  牵头负责法案起草工作的德国总理府和经济部青睐的审查机制可以被称作美国外国投资委员会（Cfius）的精简版本。