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

• 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。
• We have a few people now who act like overlords, and some of their behaviour is truly shocking.
  现在有少数人就是做官当老爷，有些事情实在不像话！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Later overlords were mostly derived from these great states.
  后来霸主大多来自这些伟大的国家。
• 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。
• 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。