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

• Phoebe: Maybe the overlords needed them to steer their spacecrafts.
  也许统治者要求他们驾驶宇宙飞船。
• The former Soviet Republic has been banging to get into the currency club for years now, mostly in an attempt by the Latvian government to further distance itself both politically and economically from its former Russian overlords.
  这个前苏联共和国总是信誓旦旦的说要加入欧元区，至今已有多年之久，因为拉脱维亚政府希望从政治上和经济上进一步疏远自己和俄罗斯前巨头的关系。
• Jin and Chu were the overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period, the relationship of the two states are complex and changeable, and had a major impact on the Spring and Autumn Period and the other states.
  晋、楚同是春秋霸主，两国之间的关系更是复杂多变，并对他国及春秋时代产生重大的影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• Amy pointed out that between the two of us, our genetic material has the potential of producing the first in a line of intellectually superior benign overlords to guide humanity to a brighter tomorrow.
  艾米指出通过我俩的结合，我们的基因将会有机会制造出前所未有的智力超群，仁慈善良的君主，带领人类走向光明未来。
• 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。
• John was a Hebrew writing to Hebrews and hiding the information from the Roman overlords.
  约翰瞒着罗马霸主们把讯息隐秘地写给了同是希伯来人的伙伴。
• We have a few people now who act like overlords, and some of their behaviour is truly shocking.
  现在有少数人就是做官当老爷，有些事情实在不像话！
• 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。