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

• 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。
• One reason why "Hillarycare" imploded was that Mrs Clinton failed to court the barons on Capitol Hill.
  “希拉里保健”改革提案破灭的一个原因就是，克林顿女士对国会山的政要不够殷勤。
• 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。
• 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。
• Without the knowledge of half the barons in this room has failed.
  不知道这个房间里一半的男爵都失败了。
• The implicit bargains struck between prime ministers and media barons for three decades were unhealthy.
  三十年来，首相和媒体大亨之间达成的秘而不宣的协议并不正常。
• Few business barons remained.
  留存下来的企业巨头已寥寥无几。
• 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”。
• 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。
• Today's media barons control the world as opinion makers.
  今天的传媒大亨控制世界的舆论制造者。