barons

英 [ˈbærənz]

美 [ˈbærənz]

n.  男爵(最低一级贵族。英国男爵头衔为Lord; 其他国家为Baron); 工商业巨头
baron的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT; N-TITLE 男爵（贵族爵位中最低的一级）
  Abaronis a man who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility.
  1. ...their stepfather, Baron Michael Distemple.
     他们的继父，迈克尔·迪斯腾普尔男爵
• N-COUNT 巨头；大王；大亨
  You can usebaronto refer to someone who controls a large amount of a particular industry or activity and who is therefore extremely powerful.
  1. ...the battle against the drug barons.
     打击毒枭之战
  2. ...the British press barons.
     英国新闻业巨子

双语例句

• The west end is full of hedge funds, oil barons and old money.
  伦敦西区到处是对冲基金、石油大亨和旧富们。
• He cursed the barons and the people for treating their king so badly.
  他咒骂男爵们和人民对他们的国王太过分了。
• A small, ill-equipped police force is battling against the powerful drug barons.
  一小队装备很差的警察在与强大的毒品巨头作斗争。
• Several of the powerful French barons, including the mighty Duke of Burgundy, joined the English.
  好几个有权势的法国贵族，包括勃艮第大公爵在内；都与英国相勾结。
• His connections with mining barons extended to making some of them state ministers.
  他与矿业大亨的关系已经发展到能够让其中的一些人成为联邦部长。
• Mr Wang's tactics sent shivers through Shanxi's coal barons, many of them entrepreneurs from the coast.
  王军的政策让很多煤老板们心慌。他们中的许多人都来自沿海地区。
• We, my friends, are the new oil barons.
  各位，我们就是新的石油大王。
• It is the land barons that determine whom one marries, whom one has relationships with, and how many children one may bear, and what job one holds within the community.
  正是土地大亨，决定你和谁结婚、和谁结交、生下几个孩子和在社会上得到什么工作。
• Analysts had also been playing down share-price prospects until the two barons came on the scene.
  分析家们在这两大巨头出现之前也不看好他们的股份价格的前景。
• The legislation originated in the demands of farmers and merchants for protection against the "robber barons".
  此项立法最初的原因，是农民和商人吁请政府保护，使自己免受“强盗贵族”（robberbaron）的损害。