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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Phoebe: Maybe the overlords needed them to steer their spacecrafts.
  也许统治者要求他们驾驶宇宙飞船。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。