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。
• 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。
• What does the bank and land barons win?
  银行和土地大亨赢得了什么？
• The great financier and banker was the prototype for all the Wall Street barons who followed.
  大金融家和银行家是所有原型随同华尔街大王。
• 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。
• 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。
• A small, ill-equipped police force is battling against the powerful drug barons.
  一小队装备很差的警察在与强大的毒品巨头作斗争。
• Several of the powerful French barons, including the mighty Duke of Burgundy, joined the English.
  好几个有权势的法国贵族，包括勃艮第大公爵在内；都与英国相勾结。
• 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。
• 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。