bosses

英 [ˈbɒsɪz]

美 [ˈbɔːsɪz]

n.  老板; 工头; 领班; 总经理; 领导
v.  对(某人)发号施令
boss的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 老板；上司
  Yourbossis the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
  1. He cannot stand his boss...
     他无法忍受他的老板。
  2. Occasionally I have to go and ask the boss for a rise.
     有时我不得不找老板要求加薪。
• N-COUNT 领导；头儿；发号施令者
  If you arethe bossin a group or relationship, you are the person who makes all the decisions.
  1. He thinks he's the boss.
     他认为自己是头儿。
• VERB 对…颐指气使；对…指手画脚
  If you say that someonebossesyou, you mean that they keep telling you what to do in a way that is irritating.
  1. We cannot boss them into doing more...
     我们不能再差遣他们做更多的事了。
  2. 'You are not to boss me!' she shouted.
     “你不能指挥我！”她喊道。
  3. Boss around, or in British Englishboss about, means the same asboss.
     boss around,boss about（英国英语）同boss
  4. He started bossing people around and I didn't like what was happening.
     他开始把别人差来遣去，而我不喜欢他这样。
• PHRASE 为自己打工；自己拿主意
  If youareyourown boss, you work for yourself or make your own decisions and do not have anyone telling you what to do.
  1. I'm very much my own boss and no one interferes with what I do.
     我自己很有主见，没有人干预我做的事。

双语例句

• He attacked greedy bosses for awarding themselves big rises
  他抨击那些贪心的老板为他们自己大幅加薪。
• How do the bosses retain the confidence of their staff, clients and stockholders?
  那些老板们如何保持员工、客户和股东的信任？
• Future bosses and spouses may not be so patient with this behavior.
  孩子今后的老板和配偶对这种行为可能就没有那么大的耐心了。
• Underlings fawn on their bosses.
  奴才巴结主子。
• We see this every time we ask bosses to assess themselves as leaders and managers.
  每次我们请公司老板评价自己作为领导者和管理者的表现时都会看到这种情况。
• Company bosses have come back down to earth with a bump after a period of post-election euphoria.
  公司老板们在经历了一段选举过后的兴奋之后，重又回到现实中来。
• If we can prove to you that your bosses lied.
  如果我们能证明你的上司对你撒谎了。
• The country was in possession of the bosses and the emigrant and decent people had to fall back on sport or culture.
  现在国家掌握在大老板和侨民手里，体面人物不得不退回去搞体育文化。
• Employees should learn to say "no" to their bosses unreasonable dictates.
  雇员应学会对上司不合理的要求说“不”。
• The convictions resulted in the local crime bosses putting a contract on him
  这些判罪导致当地犯罪团伙的老大们要雇凶杀他。