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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In that mock epic, the manacled, nearly naked Charlton Heston is rated an interesting specimen by a variety of simian overlords.
  电影中，CharltonHeston被种类繁多、济济为患的猿猴们俘虏，他戴着脚镣，近乎赤裸，并被看作是一个有趣的外物种标本。
• 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。
• These questions have long attracted the attention of Sinologists, and a similar confusion between China and Cathay can also be observed among the pioneering generation of early Western explorers and their overlords.
  长期以来，这个词一直在困扰着中国学者，而地理大发现初期的西方君主，也对China与Cathay之间是否有关系感到迷惑。
• John was a Hebrew writing to Hebrews and hiding the information from the Roman overlords.
  约翰瞒着罗马霸主们把讯息隐秘地写给了同是希伯来人的伙伴。
• Later overlords were mostly derived from these great states.
  后来霸主大多来自这些伟大的国家。
• 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。