lieutenants

英 [lɛfˈtɛnənts]

美 [luˈtɛnənts]

n.  (陆军)中尉; (海军或空军)上尉; 仅低于…官阶的官员; (美国警察的)一定级别的警官
lieutenant的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT; N-TITLE （陆军、海军陆战队、空军）中尉，少尉；（海军）上尉；（美国警察的）警督，小队长
  Alieutenantis a person who holds a junior officer's rank in the army, navy, marines, or air force, or in the American police force.
  1. Lieutenant Campbell ordered the man at the wheel to steer for the gunboat.
     坎贝尔上尉命令舵手将船开向炮艇。
  2. Lieutenantis also a combining form.
     （亦可用于构词）
  3. ...Lieutenant Colonel Gale Carter.
     盖尔·卡特中校
• N-COUNT 助理；（尤指）副职
  If you refer to someone as a person'slieutenant, you mean they are that person's assistant, especially their main assistant, in an organization or activity.
  1. He was my right-hand man, my lieutenant on the field, a cool, calculated footballer.
     他是我的得力助手，球场上的代理人，是一个冷静而有头脑的足球运动员。

双语例句

• If you harbour concerns, you usually bombard lieutenants with questions.
  如果你心存疑虑，你通常会连珠炮式地向你的副手发问。
• US companies are facing fresh pressure from regulators and shareholders to rein in excessive executive pay as research shows chief executives have been paid up to 10 times more than their top lieutenants.
  美国公司正面临来自监管机构和股东的新一轮压力，要求它们控制过高的高管薪酬，因为有研究表明，首席执行官的薪酬最多可比他们的副手高出10倍。
• Since we were second lieutenants at the basic school.
  从我们在基地学院还是少尉时就认识了。
• In the navy, the lieutenants are subordinate to captains.
  在海军中，中尉比上尉的地位低。
• Though they are still at war with enemy armies, these lieutenants cannot find their own way forward.
  尽管这些副官仍然在与敌军作战，但他们无法靠自己开辟一条前行的道路。
• This was a topic of fierce debate among executives. Mr. Jobs hated the idea of sharing the iPod with Windows, but he eventually acquiesced to his lieutenants.
  当时这在管理层中曾激起很大的争论，乔布斯不喜欢iPod与Windows兼容的想法，但最终还是默许手下这样做。
• Commander in chief: franklin Delano roosevelt, his lieutenants and their war.
  主帅：富兰克林德拉诺罗斯福，他的将士们和他们的战争。
• These cunning, malefic beings once served as the demon Kil'jaeden's most trusted lieutenants.
  这些狡诈邪恶的生物是恶魔基尔加丹最信任的助手。
• Fred Goodwin, disgraced former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, was notorious for what were nicknamed morning beatings, where he focused rage and ridicule on his lieutenants.
  苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）名誉扫地的前首席执行官弗雷德•古德温（FredGoodwin）因被戏称为早晨打击的会议而声名远扬&他在会上对下属极尽批评和嘲讽之能事。
• Lieutenants are bad news, as I found to my cost when I tried slipping past one In a guard's uniform.
  少尉们是个坏消息，我上次穿著一个警卫的制服要溜过去，他马上就抓到我了。