chieftains

英 [ˈtʃiːftənz]

美 [ˈtʃiftənz]

n.  首领; 酋长; (苏格兰的)族长
chieftain的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 酋长;部落首领
  Achieftainis the leader of a tribe.
  1. ...the legendary British chieftain, King Arthur.
     传说中的不列颠部落首领——亚瑟王

双语例句

• Clans are ruled by clan chieftains, or warlords, and a council of females, called matrons.
  每个氏族由族长或军阀率领，辅以有声望的年长妇女组成的议会。
• With the emergence of the influential families, southwest China was under the control of three powers, that is, the inland regime, the influential families and the minority chieftains.
  由于大姓的出现，使西南地区形成了以内地政权、大姓、夷帅为主体的三元势力结构。
• As we know very little about them apart from legend, we can only speculate that they were probably tribal chieftains during the transitional period from primitive to slave society.
  撇开神话的色彩，他们的本来面目大概就是原始社会向奴隶社会过渡时期的部落首领。
• For example, as Geely's interest in Ford Motor's Volvo unit shows, many of China's auto makers are run by corporate chieftains with similar global ambitions.
  举例来讲，正如吉利汽车控股有限公司有兴趣收购福特汽车（FordMotor）旗下的沃尔沃（Volvo）品牌所表明的，很多中国汽车厂商的领导都有着类似的全球雄心。
• Strictly speaking, the real Roman dynasty started from the Etruscan conquest. The Latin kings or the indigenous kings before then were in fact only heads of the clan coalition or chieftains.
  认为真正的罗马王政实际上应始于埃特鲁斯征服，此前的拉丁王或本土王只不过是氏族联盟首领或部落首领。
• He was the most outstanding of all chieftains.
  他是历代土司中最杰出的一位。
• Yumu Village used to be the military fortress of a chieftain, in an era when chieftains in different villages waged war against each other to expand their territory.
  鱼木寨在古代一直是土司军事要塞，而盘踞在各个山寨的土司们为扩大领地，相互征战。
• As recorded in historical literature, when the ancient sovereign Yao was head of the tribal confederation, the chieftains unanimously agreed that Shun should be his successor.
  古代文献上说，尧为部落联盟领袖时，各部落首领共同推举舜为尧的继承人。
• The cause of the equality among the deities is that the Zhuang people were separated into many groups and tribes with many chieftains in history.
  壮族师公教众神平等的根源在于历史上壮族长期处于分散而居、部落林立、酋帅众多的社会状态。
• Similarly the Arab chieftains on their silken Byzantine divans could not forget the desert, and hoarded riches far beyond any possible physical need.
  同样，那些坐在拜占庭帝国柔软光滑的长沙椅上的阿拉伯酋长们也无法忘记沙漠，贮藏起远远超过可能需要的物质财富。