elites

英 [eɪˈliːts]

美 [ɪˈlits]

n.  上层集团; (统称)掌权人物，社会精英
elite的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 精英;杰出人物
  You can refer to the most powerful, rich, or talented people within a particular group, place, or society as theelite.
  1. ...a government comprised mainly of the elite...
     主要由精英组成的政府
  2. We have a political elite in this country.
     我们国家有一群政治精英。
• ADJ-GRADED 精英的;精锐的;最优秀的
  Elitepeople or organizations are considered to be the best of their kind.
  1. ...the elite troops of the President's bodyguard.
     精锐的总统卫队

双语例句

• The replacement of failed economic, bureaucratic and intellectual elites is always fraught.
  取代失败的经济、政治和学术精英的过程永远充满风险。
• But it is spreading rapidly among the middle classes and the elites.
  但是，它是在中产阶级和精英阶层当中迅速传播的。
• The changes about Russian political system provide space for elites and masses to affect its diplomacy.
  俄罗斯政治体制的变化为精英和大众提供了影响外交的空间。
• They are elites, and the global marketplace for goods, information, and style is their corner store.
  她们都是精英，商品、知识和时尚的全球市场就像是她们的街头小店。
• Hunger that most traditional threat to ruling elites is returning to many countries that have embraced globalisation.
  作为对统治精英最为传统的威胁，饥饿正在许多拥抱全球化的国家重现。
• Serfs and slaves need no longer satisfy the appetites of narrow elites.
  农奴和奴隶不再需要满足少数精英群体的要求。
• The political elites of the eurozone periphery are responsible for having lost access to the financial markets in 2010.
  欧元区外围国家的政治精英应该对他们2010年无法再进入金融市场负责。
• Both citizens and elites in Europe seem to feel the need to stop this nonsense.
  欧洲民众和精英们似乎都感到有必要停止这种蠢行。
• A widening gap between the electorate and the elites threatens the fragile compact at the heart of free societies.
  选民和精英阶层之间日渐扩大的鸿沟，威胁着处于自由社会中心的脆弱契约。
• Their ruling elites are directly enriched by globalisation.
  这些国家的统治精英也直接因全球化而致富。