chiefs

英 [tʃiːfs]

美 [tʃifs]

n.  (公司或机构的)首领，头目，最高领导人; 首领; 酋长; 族长
chief的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (组织机构的)负责人，头儿，首领
  Thechiefof an organization is the person who is in charge of it.
  1. ...a commission appointed by the police chief.
     警察局局长任命的委员会
  2. ...Putin's chief of security.
     普金的安全部长
• N-COUNT; N-TITLE 酋长;部落首领
  Thechiefof a tribe is its leader.
  1. ...Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains.
     坐牛，大平原地区苏人部族的酋长
• ADJ (用于职位头衔)主管的，首席的
  Chiefis used in the job titles of the most senior worker or workers of a particular kind in an organization.
  1. ...the chief test pilot.
     首席试飞员
• ADJ 主要的;最重要的
  Thechiefcause, part, or member of something is the most important one.
  1. Financial stress is well established as a chief reason for divorce...
     经济压力被确认是导致离婚的首要原因。
  2. The job went to one of his chief rivals.
     那份工作被他的一个主要对手抢去了。

双语例句

• Police chiefs strongly defended police conduct against a wave of criticism.
  针对批评的浪潮，警察局长们极力为警方的行为进行辩护。
• The joint chiefs and most of the cabinet members are on their way here.
  联席会议和大部分内阁都在来这里的路上。
• The Irish chiefs had done their homage and taken their oaths in one language only, Irish.
  爱尔兰的首领们在归降称臣和宣誓效忠时，只用一种语言，就是爱尔兰语。
• All operational control will be vested in the British Chiefs of Staff acting under His Majesty's Government.
  作战的全部指挥权，授予国王陛下政府领导下的英国参谋长委员会，一切命令都要通过他们。
• After all, both of his grandfathers were tribal chiefs.
  毕竟，他爷爷和外公曾是部落猷长。
• And their chiefs of staff too.
  和他们的主要下属。
• The men mustered before their clan chiefs
  男人们聚集在族长们面前。
• France assumed the status of protector by signing treaties with Gabonese coastal chiefs in 1839 and 1841.
  法国人于1839年和1841年与加蓬海岸的酋长签署条约，成为他们的保护者。
• His plans almost caught security chiefs and hotel staff on the hop.
  他的计划几乎让安全主管和饭店工作人员都措手不及。
• State governors and schools chiefs led the effort to develop the standards.
  各州州长和学校校长领导了该项标准。