despots是什么意思？

despots

• n. 专制君主，专制者( despot的名词复数 )，暴君；

例句

• Perhaps he needs to remember, amid cacophony, that some of the best conductors are despots. 或许他需要记住, 不调和中, 有一些最好的指挥是专制者.
• They are irresponsible despots. 他们都是一些无法无天的土皇帝.
• They did away with more than 20 local despots that year. 那一年他们铲除了20多个恶霸.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  专制君主;暴君;压迫者
  A despot is a ruler or other person who has a lot of power and who uses it unfairly or cruelly.