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

• Japanese feudal chiefs had power of life and death over their subjects.
  在过去，日本的封建主对庶民操有生杀大权。
• After all, both of his grandfathers were tribal chiefs.
  毕竟，他爷爷和外公曾是部落猷长。
• 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 Joint Chiefs of staff act as the main military advisors to the US president.
  参谋长联席会议充当美国总统主要的军事顾问。
• 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。
• Water industry chiefs were rapped yesterday for failing their customers
  昨天，水利行业的头头们因为怠慢客户而受到批评。
• Originally tribes exchanged with tribe through the respective chiefs of the gentes;
  起初是部落和部落之间通过各自的氏族首长来进行交换；
• This staff will merely be a great pad between the theatre commanders and the Combined Chiefs of Staff.
  而这些人员只会成为战区司令官和联合参谋长委员会之间的一个庞大的缓冲队伍。
• His plea came last night as party chiefs held an inquest into the election disaster.
  昨晚政党领袖就选举惨败原因进行调查时，他提出了申辩。
• 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。