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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The online commerce overlords are screaming for your wallet, pointing directly at the competition and establishing another foothold in a young market.
  这家电子商务领域的霸主盯准了消费者的钱包，直面竞争，在一个新兴市场建立新的据点。
• 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。
• Rupert Murdoch has a big national newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, and though Michael Bloomberg does not, they are otherwise similarly situated overlords.
  默多克拥有《华尔街日报》，尽管布隆伯格没有这样的全国性大报，但两人在其他方面都是属于同一个档次的大亨。
• 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。
• The six-hour miniseries follows a breed of aliens called the Overlords, who manage to peacefully invade and rule Earth, and create a pseudo-utopia that comes at the price of human identity and culture.
  这部时长6小时的迷你剧讲述的是一支名叫Overlors的外星人族群企图以和平方式入侵地球，建立一个虚假的乌托邦来打击人类的自我认同和文化。
• 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。
• 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。