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

• Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [ Vice President Joe] Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there, bin Laden wrote in a letter to one of his top lieutenants.
  拉登在写给他的一名最高级助理的信中说：奥巴马是无信仰之首，把他杀掉会让美国副总统拜登接管剩下的任期，这是美国的传统。
• 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”。
• 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。
• Kate, what do you know about the lieutenants?
  凯特，有关于中尉的事你知道些什么？
• 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。
• Mr Bernanke and his lieutenants are conventionally Keynesian.
  伯南克及其副手向来是凯恩斯主义者。
• 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。
• When Mr Fuld's lieutenants warned that their bank's failure would unleash a financial tsunami, Mr Paulson accused them of talking their own book.
  当富尔德的副手们警告，他们的银行一旦倒闭，会引发金融海啸时，保尔森指责他们只顾自己。
• On Wednesday, Mr Diamond and three top lieutenants said they would waive their bonuses this year to "reflect our collective responsibility as leaders".
  周三，戴蒙德和其他三位高管表示，他们将放弃今年的奖金，以“反映我们作为领导者的集体责任”。
• In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains.
  在陆军中，中尉是上尉的下级。