overseers

英 [ˈəʊvəsɪəz]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈsiərz]

n.  监工; 工头; (某体系的)监督者，监督机构，督察
overseer的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 监工；工头
  Anoverseeris someone whose job is to make sure that employees are working properly.
  1. I was put in the tailor shop, and I loved it. I was promoted to overseer.
     我被安排到缝纫车间，结果我很喜欢这项工作，后来还晋升为工头。
• N-COUNT （某一体系、活动等的）监督人，监管人，负责人
  If a person or organization is theoverseerof a particular system or activity, they are responsible for making sure that the system or activity works properly and is successful.
  1. ...the department's dual role as overseer of oil production and safety.
     该部门作为监管石油生产与安全的机构的双重身份

双语例句

• Mr Hogan-Howe subsequently served as one of Her Majesty's chief inspectors of constabulary, an elite group of overseers.
  随后其又成为了女王警察总督警察精英联盟中的一员。
• On farms, where overseers exploit the strength of slaves, I have replaced the latter, wherever possible, by free shareholders.
  农庄是工头们压榨奴隶的地方，我已尽可能用自由的佃农来取代后者。
• Is "sorry" the best America gets for the ineptitude, incompetence, reckless and abusive behaviors of those on Wall Street and their regulatory overseers in Washington after driving our markets and economy over the cliff?
  在那些华尔街菁英以及华盛顿的监管官员们种种无知无畏而又无法无天的行为将我们的市场和经济推下悬崖后，我们能听到的就只是一声“抱歉”吗？
• In 1911, Wuchang uprising in Shanxi after a successful responded positively to overthrow the Qing government, organization in Shanxi insurgents ruled, and established the junta, was elected as Shanxi overseers.
  1911年武昌起义成功后，在山西积极响应，组织起义军推翻清政府在山西的统治，并成立了军政府，被推选为山西督军。
• One personage, whose name has remained unknown, announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people.
  一个没有暴露姓名的人传播消息说，到了一定时候有两个被争取过来的工头，会把一个武器工厂的大门向人民开放。
• Here he sets out the clearest statement in the New Testament on the qualifications of elders ( or overseers) and deacons.
  他在新约的这部份清晰列出作教会长老（或监督）及执事的资格。
• The reason for the large number of slaves was that many of them worked together in manufactories, in large rooms, under overseers.
  大量奴隶的存在，是由于许多奴隶在监工的监督下在房屋很大的手工工场内一起工作。
• In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.
  在主要实行资本主义制度的国家，行为者和管理者似乎都没有充分意识到这种制度的优势或潜在危险。
• Mr Tsang lacks charisma, but opinion polls suggest he would win a comfortable majority because of his experience& and his ability to get on with those overseers in Beijing.
  曾荫权缺乏领袖魅力，但民调表明，他会赢得令人安慰的大多数支持，因为他有经验，以及他与北京“监管员们”相投。
• Overseers were responsible for leading or supervising a church.
  监督负责带领或管理教会。