overlord
美音:
[´əuvə´lɔ:d
]英音:
[´əuvə´lɔ:d
]n.最高统治主,霸王
难易程度:
overlord为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
名词:overlordship
overlord
/'əʊvəlɔ:d; `ovɚ,lɔrd/
n (formerly) nobleman on whose land people of lower rank worked (旧时的)领主, 大地主
*a feudal overlord 封建领主
* The peasants owed service and obedience to their overlord. 农民要俯首贴耳为地主效劳.
overlord
n[C]
someone with great power over a large number of people, especially in the past
1. When Churchill completed his argument, Stalin leaned forward and said he wanted to ask an indiscreet question: "Do the British really believe in Overlord, or are you only saying so to reassure the Russians?" 当丘吉尔阐明完他的论点之后,斯大林向前俯过身来说他想问一个很轻率的问题:“英国确实相信‘霸王’行动,还是你们只是为了打消苏联人的疑虑呢?”
2. With the Overlord dispute settled, Churchill attempted to draw Stalin out on the Far East, but the Russian was reluctant. 随着有关“霸王”行动这一争议的解决,丘吉尔试图引出斯大林关于远东问题的意见,但这个俄国人不太愿意表态。
3. The debate was over whether to go ahead with Overlord in the spring of 1944, as the Russians and Americans favoured, or possibly to postpone the invasion for the sake of operations in the Mediterranean, as the British proposed. 辩论是针对是在1944年的春天像苏联和美国所赞成的那样继续进行“霸王”行动,还是如英国所提议的由于地中海地区军事行动的缘故可能推迟登陆。
4. He said the British government was anxious to begin Overlord as soon as possible but did not want to neglect the great possibilities in the Mediterranean merely for avoiding a delay of a month or two. 他说英国政府急于尽快开始“霸王”行动,但是不想只为了避免一两个月的延迟而忽略了地中海地区的极大的可能性。
5. At a meeting of the military chiefs a few hours earlier, the British, at first hesitant, were raising additional objections to fixing the date for the invasion of northern France, known by the code name Overlord. 在几小时之前召开的一次军事首脑会议上,英国人先是犹豫不决,后来又节外生枝,反对商定攻占法国北部,即代号为“霸王”行动的日期。
6. Stalin pressed for a decision to launch Overlord in May, saying, "I don´t care if it is the lst, 15th,or 20th, but a definite date is important." 斯大林敦促作出在五月份发动“霸王”行动的决定,他说:“我不在乎是在1号、15号或是20号,但是一个确定的日期是很重要的。”
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