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czar

/zahr, tsahr/US // zɑr, tsɑr //UK // (zɑː) //

沙皇,沙特阿拉伯人,共和国的沙皇

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an emperor or king.
    • : the former emperor of Russia.
    • : an autocratic ruler or leader.
    • : any person exercising great authority or power in a particular field: a czar of industry.

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Examples

  • About 700,000 Virginians are eligible for booster shots, and 350,000 of those are health-care workers, said Danny Avula, the state’s vaccine czar.

  • He basically became czar of the US food supply, exerting totalitarian control over prices, distribution, and purchasing.

  • The closest thing to college basketball’s czar, Krzyzewski is and will long be the standard-bearer for the sport.

  • As Gates writes, the “czar” title was first used in 1918—President Woodrow Wilson’s “industry czar” oversaw WWI supplies.

  • During Boler Davis’s tenure as quality czar, GM substantially improved its record on that front.

  • Four people have died of Ebola and that already has a ‘czar.’

  • The Republican reaction is starting to shift from calls for a czar to calls for a different czar.

  • Ironically, the Obama administration was forced to battle a Republican czar panic in the early days of its administration.

  • The appointment of the new Ebola czar comes after Republicans began demanding a White House point person on the threat.

  • On Friday, the president announced the appointment of political and policy operative Ron Klain as “Ebola czar.”

  • Meanwhile, unknown to the Marshal, the Emperor had accepted the Czar's demands for an armistice.

  • But the Czar's mind had early taken a strange ply which it retained to the last.

  • The Czar returned the visit with the same precautions, and was admitted into Kensington House by a back door.

  • It was, indeed, not in the character of tenant that the Czar was likely to gain the good word of civilised men.

  • The czar had his hat pierced by a ball, and prince Menzikoff had three horses killed under him.