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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Typically, the main beneficiaries of such policies have not been national economies, but the managers of strategic companies and their bureaucratic overlords.
  通常情况下，这些政策的主要受益方并不是国民经济，而是战略企业的管理层和他们的官僚上级。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。