bosses

英 [ˈbɒsɪz]

美 [ˈbɔːsɪz]

n.  老板; 工头; 领班; 总经理; 领导
v.  对(某人)发号施令
boss的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 老板；上司
  Yourbossis the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
  1. He cannot stand his boss...
     他无法忍受他的老板。
  2. Occasionally I have to go and ask the boss for a rise.
     有时我不得不找老板要求加薪。
• N-COUNT 领导；头儿；发号施令者
  If you arethe bossin a group or relationship, you are the person who makes all the decisions.
  1. He thinks he's the boss.
     他认为自己是头儿。
• VERB 对…颐指气使；对…指手画脚
  If you say that someonebossesyou, you mean that they keep telling you what to do in a way that is irritating.
  1. We cannot boss them into doing more...
     我们不能再差遣他们做更多的事了。
  2. 'You are not to boss me!' she shouted.
     “你不能指挥我！”她喊道。
  3. Boss around, or in British Englishboss about, means the same asboss.
     boss around,boss about（英国英语）同boss
  4. He started bossing people around and I didn't like what was happening.
     他开始把别人差来遣去，而我不喜欢他这样。
• PHRASE 为自己打工；自己拿主意
  If youareyourown boss, you work for yourself or make your own decisions and do not have anyone telling you what to do.
  1. I'm very much my own boss and no one interferes with what I do.
     我自己很有主见，没有人干预我做的事。

双语例句

• We were disgusted when bosses awarded themselves a massive pay rise. How can they get on the gravy train, but ask us to take a wage freeze?
  看到老板为自己大幅加薪，我们感到十分气愤。他们凭什么轻轻松松捞油水却要求我们不涨工资？
• Sell their ideas to their bosses and employees.
  向他们的上司和员工宣传自己的想法。
• Employees should learn to say "no" to their bosses unreasonable dictates.
  雇员应学会对上司不合理的要求说“不”。
• How do these people get to be the bosses of major companies?
  这些人是怎样成为大公司的老总的？
• I'm afraid she's criticized me much more time than all my father and bosses and teachers did.
  恐怕她对我的批评远远地超过了的我的老爸、老板和老师。
• He had been taken to see several of the bosses, with the result that one had promised him a job the beginning of the next week.
  他已经接受了很多个老板的面试，其中一个答应下星期初给他安排工作。
• If we can prove to you that your bosses lied.
  如果我们能证明你的上司对你撒谎了。
• We see this every time we ask bosses to assess themselves as leaders and managers.
  每次我们请公司老板评价自己作为领导者和管理者的表现时都会看到这种情况。
• Their parents, teachers, bosses and colleagues have all let them down from time to time.
  他们的父母、老师、老板和同事时时让他们失望。
• Bosses have a way of always finding out about such things.
  老板总喜欢把这类事情搞清楚。