lieutenants

英 [lɛfˈtɛnənts]

美 [luˈtɛnənts]

n.  (陆军)中尉; (海军或空军)上尉; 仅低于…官阶的官员; (美国警察的)一定级别的警官
lieutenant的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT; N-TITLE （陆军、海军陆战队、空军）中尉，少尉；（海军）上尉；（美国警察的）警督，小队长
  Alieutenantis a person who holds a junior officer's rank in the army, navy, marines, or air force, or in the American police force.
  1. Lieutenant Campbell ordered the man at the wheel to steer for the gunboat.
     坎贝尔上尉命令舵手将船开向炮艇。
  2. Lieutenantis also a combining form.
     （亦可用于构词）
  3. ...Lieutenant Colonel Gale Carter.
     盖尔·卡特中校
• N-COUNT 助理；（尤指）副职
  If you refer to someone as a person'slieutenant, you mean they are that person's assistant, especially their main assistant, in an organization or activity.
  1. He was my right-hand man, my lieutenant on the field, a cool, calculated footballer.
     他是我的得力助手，球场上的代理人，是一个冷静而有头脑的足球运动员。

双语例句

• Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [ Vice President Joe] Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there, bin Laden wrote in a letter to one of his top lieutenants.
  拉登在写给他的一名最高级助理的信中说：奥巴马是无信仰之首，把他杀掉会让美国副总统拜登接管剩下的任期，这是美国的传统。
• He was killed in the attack but his key lieutenants escaped into the mountains that surround East Timor's capital, Dili.
  雷纳多在伏击中被打死，但是他的副手逃进了首都东帝汶周围的山区。
• Lieutenants are bad news, as I found to my cost when I tried slipping past one In a guard's uniform.
  少尉们是个坏消息，我上次穿著一个警卫的制服要溜过去，他马上就抓到我了。
• Kate, what do you know about the lieutenants?
  凯特，有关于中尉的事你知道些什么？
• Fred Goodwin, disgraced former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, was notorious for what were nicknamed morning beatings, where he focused rage and ridicule on his lieutenants.
  苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）名誉扫地的前首席执行官弗雷德•古德温（FredGoodwin）因被戏称为早晨打击的会议而声名远扬&他在会上对下属极尽批评和嘲讽之能事。
• US companies are facing fresh pressure from regulators and shareholders to rein in excessive executive pay as research shows chief executives have been paid up to 10 times more than their top lieutenants.
  美国公司正面临来自监管机构和股东的新一轮压力，要求它们控制过高的高管薪酬，因为有研究表明，首席执行官的薪酬最多可比他们的副手高出10倍。
• He also denied any regret for the insults he and his lieutenants hurled at the Indian-born entrepreneur's company and culture, including a dismissal of Mittal shares as "monkey money".
  他同时拒绝就他和他的副手们对这家印度企业家的公司和文化的侮辱而道歉，这些侮辱包括称米塔尔的股份为“猴子钱”。
• Since we were second lieutenants at the basic school.
  从我们在基地学院还是少尉时就认识了。
• Mr Bernanke and his lieutenants are conventionally Keynesian.
  伯南克及其副手向来是凯恩斯主义者。
• Though they are still at war with enemy armies, these lieutenants cannot find their own way forward.
  尽管这些副官仍然在与敌军作战，但他们无法靠自己开辟一条前行的道路。