| 词汇 | overlord |
| 释义 | overlord noun[ C ] uk /ˈəʊ.və.lɔːd/ us /ˈoʊ.vɚ.lɔːrd/ a person in a position of power, especially in the past（尤指旧时的）领主，大王，霸主 Synonym master People in charge of or controlling other people acephalous administrator anti-management authority bureaucrat controller council counter-power dean deputy manipulator mistress movers and shakers multi-headed officer tsar vice presidency vice president vicegerency vicegerent Examples of overlordoverlord She carried out her basic responsibilities to her people, her allies and her overlord in the same manner as other land chiefs. Submission sometimes led to incorporation, but often to a tenuous relation between reluctant subjects and distrusted overlords. There they provided all sorts of services for their overlords. They could pay overlords what they asked for, or they could vote with their feet and hope for the best. On the one hand, it signified the premodern overlord/tributary relationship. Around 5,000 years ago, in fertile river valleys bordered by mountains and deserts, subjects started to pay overlords labor and taxes. Government officials subtly criticized their political overlords for failing to commit enough resources to their particular area of concern. The section below will argue that such similarities can be seen in investiture rituals-that is, confirmation rituals by an overlord of lesser individuals not necessarily from the same community. In all three cases factors such as size of the communities, their social and economic stratification and relation to their overlords determined politics and their changes over time. It is not an overlord we have but an overloading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think the question of the "overlord" has been made clear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is real power of co-ordination given in the sense that the other overlords have real power? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me first deal with the major matter concerned with the whole question of what has been referred to as "overlord-ship". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Setting up an all-powerful overlord to peer over people's shoulders, able at any time to wield immense powers of intervention, might encourage that defensive mentality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has no general powers of surveillance over the polytechnics and colleges and it is not an overlord. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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