overseers

英 [ˈəʊvəsɪəz]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈsiərz]

n.  监工; 工头; (某体系的)监督者，监督机构，督察
overseer的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 监工；工头
  Anoverseeris someone whose job is to make sure that employees are working properly.
  1. I was put in the tailor shop, and I loved it. I was promoted to overseer.
     我被安排到缝纫车间，结果我很喜欢这项工作，后来还晋升为工头。
• N-COUNT （某一体系、活动等的）监督人，监管人，负责人
  If a person or organization is theoverseerof a particular system or activity, they are responsible for making sure that the system or activity works properly and is successful.
  1. ...the department's dual role as overseer of oil production and safety.
     该部门作为监管石油生产与安全的机构的双重身份

双语例句

• British overseers of Hong Kong sometimes seem to be doing Beijing's bidding.
  香港的英国官署有时似乎唯北京之命是从。
• Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before god.
  约书亚将以色列的众支派聚集在示剑，召了以色列的长老，族长，审判官，并官长来，他们就站在神面前。
• In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.
  在主要实行资本主义制度的国家，行为者和管理者似乎都没有充分意识到这种制度的优势或潜在危险。
• They are four of Hollywood's biggest rising stars, bringing some youth appeal to the Oscars, whose overseers are trying to boost the show's TV ratings.
  这四位是好莱坞冉冉升起的四大新星，足以吸引更多的小朋友来关注奥斯卡，显然，主办方是想借助这四位的合力大大提升颁奖礼的收视率。
• Here he sets out the clearest statement in the New Testament on the qualifications of elders ( or overseers) and deacons.
  他在新约的这部份清晰列出作教会长老（或监督）及执事的资格。
• One personage, whose name has remained unknown, announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people.
  一个没有暴露姓名的人传播消息说，到了一定时候有两个被争取过来的工头，会把一个武器工厂的大门向人民开放。
• Boards need to be overseers of management and act in the interest of shareholders rather than as partners of management.
  董事会需要为股东利益服务，成为管理层的监管者，而不是他们的同盟军。
• If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder.
  他要是能够意识到自己成了孤儿，命运如何全得看教区委员和贫民救济处官员会不会发慈悲，可能还会哭得更响亮一些。
• While independent, outside overseers and layers of oversight are important, true ethical and people-centered transformation only occurs when frontline police professionals embrace it.
  独立的外部监督人员和各层次的监督虽然重要，但是向符合道德和以人为中心的转变只有在得到第一线警务人员的支持时才会实现。
• Overseers were responsible for leading or supervising a church.
  监督负责带领或管理教会。