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

• She was a leading light in their campaign.
  她是他们这次活动中的重要人物。
• Qinzhou Ni-xing Arts and Crafts Factory, a once leading enterprise among the national light industries in exporting and earning foreign exchanges, hindered by the inefficient management, has been suffering losses for years successively.
  钦州坭兴工艺厂原是全国轻工业出口创汇先进企业，但由于长期以来的管理不善，加之营销观念陈旧，造成了企业近几年来的连年亏损。
• Californian agriculture is the leading light in America and even in the world.
  美国加州的农业不仅称雄美国，而且领先于世界各地。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• Large windows and glass doors leading out to the deck bring light into the home, which on the inside looks like a modern, functional dwelling.
  大窗户和向外通向平台的玻璃门将光亮引入房屋内，让人们看到一个各种功能俱全的现代寓所。
• As the reform of the institutions of higher learning goes on, the problem of how to use power and accept supervision for the leading group has com to light.
  随着高等教育事业改革的不断深入，权力和监督已成为高校领导干部所面临的重大课题。
• Strengthening the ideological and political construction of leading groups in Universities in the light of "three represents"
  按照“三个代表”的要求加强高校领导班子思想政治建设