crown jewels

英 [ˌkraʊn ˈdʒuːəlz]

美 [ˌkraʊn ˈdʒuːəlz]

n.  御宝(国王或女王在正式场合佩戴的饰物等)
crown jewel的复数

牛津词典

noun

• 御宝（国王或女王在正式场合佩戴的饰物等）
  the crown and other objects worn or carried by a king or queen on formal occasions

柯林斯词典

• (国王或女王在重要的正式场合佩戴的)王冠，权杖，珠宝
  The Crown Jewelsare the crown, sceptre, and other precious objects which are used on important official occasions by the King or Queen.
• N-COUNT 最重要(或最有价值)的东西
  If you describe something as someone'scrown jewel, you mean it is the most important or valuable thing they have.
  1. The company is also willing to sell 20% of its crown jewel, its credit-card business.
     该公司还愿意出让其20%的核心业务，即信用卡业务。

英英释义

noun

• regalia (jewelry and other paraphernalia) worn by a sovereign on state occasions

双语例句

• They help you read, they're like crown jewels.
  它们帮你阅读，它们就像王冠上的珠宝。
• What's this got to do with the crown jewels?
  这和珠宝王冠有什么关系？
• In 2011, he negotiated an agreement giving him and a handful of key lieutenants a majority stake in Alipay, one of the company's crown jewels.
  2011年，他通过谈判达成了一项协议，使自己和几名主要的副手获得了支付宝的多数股份。支付宝被誉为公司王冠上的明珠。
• The crown was beset with diamonds and jewels.
  皇冠上镶嵌着钻石和珠宝。
• It circulated through the British crown jewels until finding a home in the coronation crown of Elizabeth, Britain's most recent Queen Mother.
  这颗宝石曾被镶上到不同皇冠之上，直到它在的英国最近的一位王太后&伊丽莎白的加冕皇冠上永久的安家。
• Similarly, if the EJB is protected but the database is not, then the hacker can bypass the application completely and go straight to the crown jewels, the corporate data.
  类似地，如果EJB受到保护，但数据库没有受到保护，则黑客完全可以绕过应用程序，直接进入核心地带操纵公司的数据。
• It's a good start for TIBCO, though shows that it's still guarding its crown jewels.
  对于TIBCO来说，这是个好的开始，尽管显示它仍在守卫它的王冠。
• That ring is beans compared with the crown jewels.
  与王冠上的宝石相比那枚戒指是不值分文的东西。
• You have purchased one of the crown jewels of English sport, an emotional force in the lives of countless people, a place where community means more than commerce.
  你购买的是一颗英国体育王国的珍宝，一个凝聚了无数人生命中情感的力量，一个不仅仅是商业的组织。
• Yet when it came to a vote, they backed him on the catastrophic bid for ABN Amro, even though the credit crunch was already crippling the financial system and ABN Amro had sold its North American crown jewels.
  然而在投票时，它们支持了古德温对荷兰银行（ABNAMRO）的灾难性收购，即使信贷危机已经在冲击金融体系，而且荷兰银行已卖掉其在北美的皇冠上的宝石。