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

• Few business barons remained.
  留存下来的企业巨头已寥寥无几。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• These very poor women who used as mules by drug barons often get long prison sentences.
  这些被毒品巨头雇来走私毒品的贫穷女子常被判长期徒刑。
• The barons made war upon him, and never again did he see a peaceful day.
  男爵们向他宣战，从此他再没有太平日子过了。
• 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。
• Because of his weakness his army was beaten by the Robert the Bruce and the Scots at Bannockburn which led to revolution by the English barons and the start of a short civil war.
  由于他的软弱，他的军队在Bannockburn被罗伯特、布鲁斯和苏格兰人所击败，那导致了由英国男爵所带领的革命和一场短暂的内战。
• 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。
• The media barons tell us what we wish to hear.
  我们希望听到什么话，传媒大亨们就说什么给我们听。