lieutenants

英 [lɛfˈtɛnənts]

美 [luˈtɛnənts]

n.  (陆军)中尉; (海军或空军)上尉; 仅低于…官阶的官员; (美国警察的)一定级别的警官
lieutenant的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT; N-TITLE （陆军、海军陆战队、空军）中尉，少尉；（海军）上尉；（美国警察的）警督，小队长
  Alieutenantis a person who holds a junior officer's rank in the army, navy, marines, or air force, or in the American police force.
  1. Lieutenant Campbell ordered the man at the wheel to steer for the gunboat.
     坎贝尔上尉命令舵手将船开向炮艇。
  2. Lieutenantis also a combining form.
     （亦可用于构词）
  3. ...Lieutenant Colonel Gale Carter.
     盖尔·卡特中校
• N-COUNT 助理；（尤指）副职
  If you refer to someone as a person'slieutenant, you mean they are that person's assistant, especially their main assistant, in an organization or activity.
  1. He was my right-hand man, my lieutenant on the field, a cool, calculated footballer.
     他是我的得力助手，球场上的代理人，是一个冷静而有头脑的足球运动员。

双语例句

• These cunning, malefic beings once served as the demon Kil'jaeden's most trusted lieutenants.
  这些狡诈邪恶的生物是恶魔基尔加丹最信任的助手。
• In the navy, the lieutenants are subordinate to captains.
  在海军中，中尉比上尉的地位低。
• Since we were second lieutenants at the basic school.
  从我们在基地学院还是少尉时就认识了。
• When Mr Fuld's lieutenants warned that their bank's failure would unleash a financial tsunami, Mr Paulson accused them of talking their own book.
  当富尔德的副手们警告，他们的银行一旦倒闭，会引发金融海啸时，保尔森指责他们只顾自己。
• Commander in chief: franklin Delano roosevelt, his lieutenants and their war.
  主帅：富兰克林德拉诺罗斯福，他的将士们和他们的战争。
• The organized crime figure and his lieutenants.
  团伙犯罪人物和他的副手们。
• Under a deal with Nasdaq, niederauer and his lieutenants would almost certainly be shown the door.
  而如果接受纳斯达克的收购要约，尼德奥尔和他的团队几乎肯定会被赶出门。
• Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [ Vice President Joe] Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there, bin Laden wrote in a letter to one of his top lieutenants.
  拉登在写给他的一名最高级助理的信中说：奥巴马是无信仰之首，把他杀掉会让美国副总统拜登接管剩下的任期，这是美国的传统。
• In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains.
  在陆军中，中尉是上尉的下级。
• Lieutenants are bad news, as I found to my cost when I tried slipping past one In a guard's uniform.
  少尉们是个坏消息，我上次穿著一个警卫的制服要溜过去，他马上就抓到我了。