overseers

英 [ˈəʊvəsɪəz]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈsiərz]

n.  监工; 工头; (某体系的)监督者，监督机构，督察
overseer的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 监工；工头
  Anoverseeris someone whose job is to make sure that employees are working properly.
  1. I was put in the tailor shop, and I loved it. I was promoted to overseer.
     我被安排到缝纫车间，结果我很喜欢这项工作，后来还晋升为工头。
• N-COUNT （某一体系、活动等的）监督人，监管人，负责人
  If a person or organization is theoverseerof a particular system or activity, they are responsible for making sure that the system or activity works properly and is successful.
  1. ...the department's dual role as overseer of oil production and safety.
     该部门作为监管石油生产与安全的机构的双重身份

双语例句

• President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates
  致Faust校长，哈佛集团以及哈佛监事委员会的各位成员，各位教职员工，众多自豪的家长，以及最为重要的&各位毕业生们
• If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder.
  他要是能够意识到自己成了孤儿，命运如何全得看教区委员和贫民救济处官员会不会发慈悲，可能还会哭得更响亮一些。
• The reason for the large number of slaves was that many of them worked together in manufactories, in large rooms, under overseers.
  大量奴隶的存在，是由于许多奴隶在监工的监督下在房屋很大的手工工场内一起工作。
• On farms, where overseers exploit the strength of slaves, I have replaced the latter, wherever possible, by free shareholders.
  农庄是工头们压榨奴隶的地方，我已尽可能用自由的佃农来取代后者。
• Here he sets out the clearest statement in the New Testament on the qualifications of elders ( or overseers) and deacons.
  他在新约的这部份清晰列出作教会长老（或监督）及执事的资格。
• Mr Hogan-Howe subsequently served as one of Her Majesty's chief inspectors of constabulary, an elite group of overseers.
  随后其又成为了女王警察总督警察精英联盟中的一员。
• Mr Tsang lacks charisma, but opinion polls suggest he would win a comfortable majority because of his experience& and his ability to get on with those overseers in Beijing.
  曾荫权缺乏领袖魅力，但民调表明，他会赢得令人安慰的大多数支持，因为他有经验，以及他与北京“监管员们”相投。
• In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.
  在主要实行资本主义制度的国家，行为者和管理者似乎都没有充分意识到这种制度的优势或潜在危险。
• American watchful eye puts its emphasis on decentralized overseers, not the least of which are the American people themselves.
  美国监督体系把重点放在分散监督上，监督者不是美国人民自己。
• British overseers of Hong Kong sometimes seem to be doing Beijing's bidding.
  香港的英国官署有时似乎唯北京之命是从。