paymasters

英 [ˈpeɪˌmɑːstəz]

美

n.  操纵者; 后台老板; (军队、工厂等的)工薪出纳员
paymaster的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 出钱操纵者；后台老板
  Apaymasteris a person or organization that pays and therefore controls another person or organization.
  1. ...the ruling party's paymasters in business and banking...
     执政党从事商业和银行业的后台老板
  2. As the main EU paymaster, Germany contributes £8 billion annually more than it gets back from Brussels.
     作为欧盟的大老板，德国每年要出资80亿英镑，比它从欧盟得到的要多。
• （军队中发放工资、军饷的）出纳员
  Apaymasteris an official in the armed forces who is responsible for the payment of wages and salaries.

双语例句

• That would reduce the average cost of its share purchases, give the company and its paymasters in Beijing some clout in negotiations over iron ore and oblige other Rio investors to work around the overhang of stock.
  这将降低购股的平均成本，让该公司及其在北京的后台在铁矿石谈判中拥有某些影响力，并迫使力拓其他股东解决股票过剩的问题。
• Von Neumann did a deal with his American military paymasters.
  冯诺依曼与美国军需主管达成了一项协议。
• The government accused the opposition parties of being controlled by trade union paymasters.
  政府指控反对党被工会的出资赞助人控制了。
• The problem with bonuses is that corporate paymasters think they are more important to staff than the staff themselves do.
  奖金的问题在于，公司发薪水的人认为自己对于员工的重要性甚至超过了员工本人。
• The paymasters of these petty crooks are the big crime syndicates. Education is suffering from youth-gang violence.
  操纵这帮小流氓的就是那个大犯罪集团.小流氓集团的暴力行为给教育工作带来了灾害。
• When the Obama administration objected to granting the authorities power to make offending websites disappear ( domain name system blocking), Murdoch tweeted this grotesque exaggeration: Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters.
  当奥巴马政府反对授权有关部门让违规网站消失（域名系统屏蔽）时，默多克在Twitter上发布了一条怪诞夸张的评论：奥巴马跟硅谷的金主们站到一起了。
• Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even so it was occasionally rumoured in some hiding-place in Oceania itself.
  他活在什么鬼知道的地方，尽干些策划阴谋诡计的勾当没准儿在海外，得到他外国主子的庇护；没准儿就藏在大洋国里有时还真有这样的谣传。
• That implies two possible paymasters: government or issuers.
  这意味着有两个可能的付费人：政府或发行商。
• Politically, voters may fear being left behind by European integration even more than they fear becoming the paymasters of Europe.
  政治方面，德国选民对于被欧洲一体化进程抛在后面的担忧，可能更甚于其对成为欧洲提款机的担忧。
• Latvia's paymasters the EU and the IMF seem divided.
  拉脱维亚的两大后台欧盟和IMF似乎存在分歧。