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。
• He was killed in the attack but his key lieutenants escaped into the mountains that surround East Timor's capital, Dili.
  雷纳多在伏击中被打死，但是他的副手逃进了首都东帝汶周围的山区。
• In the navy, the lieutenants are subordinate to captains.
  在海军中，中尉比上尉的地位低。
• 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。
• 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。
• Even though Mr Immelt recently lost one of his closest lieutenants, David Calhoun, to private equity, he claims not to be worried about the competition for talent from buyout funds that can offer large rewards in a relatively short period of time.
  即使伊梅尔特最亲密的副手之一大卫卡尔霍恩（davidcalhoun）最近去了私人股本基金，但他仍声称，并不担心来自收购基金的人才竞争（这些基金能在相对较短的时间内提供高额报酬）。
• They were sent by the lieutenants wife, pregnant with their first child, and she promised to send ribbons& blue if a boy, pink if a girl.
  那是中尉的妻子寄来的，她怀上了他们的第一个宝宝，她保证将送丝带给他是男孩就送蓝色丝带，女孩就送粉色丝带。
• 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。
• He also denied any regret for the insults he and his lieutenants hurled at the Indian-born entrepreneur's company and culture, including a dismissal of Mittal shares as "monkey money".
  他同时拒绝就他和他的副手们对这家印度企业家的公司和文化的侮辱而道歉，这些侮辱包括称米塔尔的股份为“猴子钱”。
• 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。