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

• 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。
• Under a deal with Nasdaq, niederauer and his lieutenants would almost certainly be shown the door.
  而如果接受纳斯达克的收购要约，尼德奥尔和他的团队几乎肯定会被赶出门。
• At one of his first meetings at IBM, Lou Gerstner was listening to a briefing by one of his lieutenants, who was using an overhead projector and transparencies.
  当郭士纳/LouGerstner参加他在IBM的第一次会议的时候，他的一名副手使用投影仪和幻灯片对他做简报。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• In the navy, the lieutenants are subordinate to captains.
  在海军中，中尉比上尉的地位低。
• 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。