bosses

英 [ˈbɒsɪz]

美 [ˈbɔːsɪz]

n.  老板; 工头; 领班; 总经理; 领导
v.  对(某人)发号施令
boss的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 老板；上司
  Yourbossis the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
  1. He cannot stand his boss...
     他无法忍受他的老板。
  2. Occasionally I have to go and ask the boss for a rise.
     有时我不得不找老板要求加薪。
• N-COUNT 领导；头儿；发号施令者
  If you arethe bossin a group or relationship, you are the person who makes all the decisions.
  1. He thinks he's the boss.
     他认为自己是头儿。
• VERB 对…颐指气使；对…指手画脚
  If you say that someonebossesyou, you mean that they keep telling you what to do in a way that is irritating.
  1. We cannot boss them into doing more...
     我们不能再差遣他们做更多的事了。
  2. 'You are not to boss me!' she shouted.
     “你不能指挥我！”她喊道。
  3. Boss around, or in British Englishboss about, means the same asboss.
     boss around,boss about（英国英语）同boss
  4. He started bossing people around and I didn't like what was happening.
     他开始把别人差来遣去，而我不喜欢他这样。
• PHRASE 为自己打工；自己拿主意
  If youareyourown boss, you work for yourself or make your own decisions and do not have anyone telling you what to do.
  1. I'm very much my own boss and no one interferes with what I do.
     我自己很有主见，没有人干预我做的事。

双语例句

• Underlings fawn on their bosses.
  奴才巴结主子。
• Company bosses have come back down to earth with a bump after a period of post-election euphoria.
  公司老板们在经历了一段选举过后的兴奋之后，重又回到现实中来。
• If we can prove to you that your bosses lied.
  如果我们能证明你的上司对你撒谎了。
• Even successful bosses need to be queried about the whys and wherefores of their actions.
  即使是成功的老板也要对其行动的缘由加以质疑。
• I'm afraid she's criticized me much more time than all my father and bosses and teachers did.
  恐怕她对我的批评远远地超过了的我的老爸、老板和老师。
• Both Huang and Zhang felt relieved when they told their respective bosses I quit.
  在和老板提辞职时，黄亚和张政都感觉如释重负。
• The bosses paid less than they had promised and the least complaint went to the police.
  老板们给的钱比原先答应的少，而警方收到的投诉少之又少。
• Bosses have a way of always finding out about such things.
  老板总喜欢把这类事情搞清楚。
• That's why my bosses pay me.
  这就是为什么我老板付我工资。
• He attacked greedy bosses for awarding themselves big rises
  他抨击那些贪心的老板为他们自己大幅加薪。