potentate是什么意思？

potentate

英[ˈpəʊtnteɪt] 美[ˈpoʊtnteɪt]

• n. 君主，统治者，有权势的人；

复数：potentates;

例句

• People rose up against the despotic rule of their potentate. 我们的校长是个专横的人.
• City prayers were vain against the great rural potentate. 城市里的祈祷文对于乡村中这个了不起的有权有势的人竟然毫无用处.
• From aproned pot - scrubber to the flanneled potentate, everybody liked me, everybody petted me. 不论是围着围裙的陶艺大师还是穿着法兰绒大衣的政治家, 每个人都喜欢我, 都爱逗我玩.
• From the aproned pot scrubber to the flanneled potentate, everybody liked me, everybody petted me. 从系围裙的擦锅工到穿法兰绒的权贵, 人人喜欢我, 人人宠我.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  专制君主；有绝对权力的统治者
  A potentate is a ruler who has complete power over his people.

英汉词典释义

• n.
  有权势的人
  industrial potentates. 实业巨头们

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a ruler who is unconstrained by law