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

• In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains.
  在陆军中，中尉是上尉的下级。
• They are all lieutenants in lvm's Manassas chapter.
  他们都是lvm马纳萨斯镇地方分会的副队长。
• If you harbour concerns, you usually bombard lieutenants with questions.
  如果你心存疑虑，你通常会连珠炮式地向你的副手发问。
• US companies are facing fresh pressure from regulators and shareholders to rein in excessive executive pay as research shows chief executives have been paid up to 10 times more than their top lieutenants.
  美国公司正面临来自监管机构和股东的新一轮压力，要求它们控制过高的高管薪酬，因为有研究表明，首席执行官的薪酬最多可比他们的副手高出10倍。
• Though they are still at war with enemy armies, these lieutenants cannot find their own way forward.
  尽管这些副官仍然在与敌军作战，但他们无法靠自己开辟一条前行的道路。
• On Wednesday, Mr Diamond and three top lieutenants said they would waive their bonuses this year to "reflect our collective responsibility as leaders".
  周三，戴蒙德和其他三位高管表示，他们将放弃今年的奖金，以“反映我们作为领导者的集体责任”。
• 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。
• The organized crime figure and his lieutenants.
  团伙犯罪人物和他的副手们。
• In the navy, the lieutenants are subordinate to captains.
  在海军中，中尉比上尉的地位低。
• They were sent by the lieutenants wife, pregnant with their first child, and she promised to send ribbons& blue if a boy, pink if a girl.
  那是中尉的妻子寄来的，她怀上了他们的第一个宝宝，她保证将送丝带给他是男孩就送蓝色丝带，女孩就送粉色丝带。