incumbents

英 [ɪnˈkʌmbənts]

美 [ɪnˈkʌmbənts]

n.  在职者; 现任者
incumbent的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 现任官员;在职官员
  Anincumbentis someone who holds an official post at a particular time.
  1. In general, incumbents have a 94 per cent chance of being reelected.
     通常现任官员有 94% 的几率会再次当选。
  2. Incumbentis also an adjective.
     
  3. ...the only candidate who defeated an incumbent senator.
     唯一击败现任议员的候选人
• ADJ 成为责任的;义不容辞的;必须履行的
  If it isincumbent uponyoutodo something, it is your duty or responsibility to do it.
  1. It is incumbent upon all of us to make an extra effort.
     我们所有人都必须加倍努力。

双语例句

• Since incumbents can control the state machinery that conducts elections, it is clear that elections are genuinely competitive, and that popular will, barring individual exceptions, is clearly expressed.
  鉴于在任者可以操控主持选举的国家机器，很显然，选举真的竞争激烈，除了个别情况以外，民意也得到了明确的表达。
• New brands will find it hard to break in. Incumbents may find the new regime rather cosy.
  新牌子发现自己很难打入该市场，而老牌子则在这一新制度下存活得更加惬意。
• Be it broadcasting, pharmaceuticals, banking or insurance, my experience has been that the rules favour incumbents.
  根据我的经验，不论是广播、制药、银行还是保险行业，规则都是有利于现有企业的。
• Then it uses two of the 200 termination points it has established around the world to establish the final links between the two parties on their public telephone networks, paying the incumbents for these essentially local calls.
  然后它利用在全球各地建立的200个终接点中的两个点，在通话双方的公共电话网络上建立起他们之间的最终连接，并为这些基本上属于本地通话的呼叫向电信公司付费。
• The real structural problem is that incumbents get re-elected 90 percent of the time.
  真正的结构性问题是在位者重新当选的机会占90%。
• Incumbents are going to have to get more efficient and increase their productivity.
  现有企业将不得不提高效率和增加产能。
• New players such as Metro Bank, where I serve as a director, are forcing the incumbents to work harder.
  新的市场参与者，比如我担任董事的大都会银行（MetroBank），正迫使已有的参与者更为努力地提供服务。
• In general, incumbents have a 94 per cent chance of being reelected.
  通常现任官员有94%的几率会再次当选。
• The handful of budget airlines that arrived in the past decade have struggled to get take-off and landing slots at Mexico City's airport, which are dished out by a committee dominated by incumbents.
  过去十年中新成立的仅有的几家低价航空公司为了在由现任官僚们所组成的委员会控制的墨西哥城机场中混得一席之地而拼死挣扎。
• For years, business software was a dead-end for innovation, dominated as it was by Microsoft, Oracle, and other entrenched incumbents.
  多年来，商业软件是创新的死胡同，被微软（Microsoft）、甲骨文（Oracle）和其他根深蒂固的巨头所主导。