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

• 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。
• Our sympathies now lie with the besieging militias, not the robber barons.
  现在，我们同情的是围攻的民兵，而不是强盗贵族。
• This was when robber barons started to collect unauthorised taxes on the gorge.
  就是在那个时候，强盗贵族开始对峡谷收取未经授权的税款。
• 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。
• Analysts had also been playing down share-price prospects until the two barons came on the scene.
  分析家们在这两大巨头出现之前也不看好他们的股份价格的前景。
• We, my friends, are the new oil barons.
  各位，我们就是新的石油大王。
• The French barons and princes thought only of their own gain.
  法国的贵族和亲王们只考虑自己的得失。
• The business Titans Mr Bloomberg lists were known as the "robber barons".
  布隆伯格列举的上述商界巨头都曾被称作“强盗资本家”。
• 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。
• The voter of today, in other words, inherits the rights first sustained by the barons of old.
  换言之，今天的选民继承了最先由昔日的贵族维护的权利。