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

• SD: I've seen many people take her out, at certain moments, combined with Overlords generating creep.
  我见过不少玩家在某一特定时间，利用领主制造地衣，用女王进攻。
• 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。
• All agree that Libya would need assistance in establishing a form of representative government that is alien to a country ruled successively by Italian overlords, King Idris, and then Qaddafi.
  所有人都同意，利比亚将在建立代议政府这一形式中需要援助，而这一政体对于这个相继由意大利领主，伊德里斯一世，之后是卡扎菲统治的国家来说是如此的异类。
• 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。
• In that mock epic, the manacled, nearly naked Charlton Heston is rated an interesting specimen by a variety of simian overlords.
  电影中，CharltonHeston被种类繁多、济济为患的猿猴们俘虏，他戴着脚镣，近乎赤裸，并被看作是一个有趣的外物种标本。
• 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。
• 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。
• Hat tip to bernanke-sponsored bedlam with a big assist from our central-planning fed overlords.
  表面看是伯南克引发了这场大震荡，掌握中央计划集权的美联储各大佬也是重要的帮凶。
• He wouldn't have been a favorite of some of the recent Baptist overlords or today's conservative talk-show hosts, but I sure liked talking to him.
  对最近的浸礼会大佬或当今保守派脱口秀主持人来说，他不可能得到他们的欢心，但我真的很喜欢和他交谈。
• 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。