posse

英 [ˈpɒsi] 美 [ˈpɑːsi]

n.  一群,一队,一伙(有共同之处的人); (美国旧时由县治安官调集、协助捉拿罪犯的)地方武装团队; (与毒品有关的)青年犯罪团伙

GRE法律

Collins.1 / BNC.20586 / COCA.16759



牛津词典

noun

  1. 一群,一队,一伙(有共同之处的人)
    a group of people who are similar in some way, or who spend time together
    1. a little posse of helpers
      一小伙帮忙的人
  2. (美国旧时由县治安官调集、协助捉拿罪犯的)地方武装团队
    (in the US in the past) a group of people who were brought together by a sheriff (= an officer of the law) in order to help him catch a criminal
    1. (与毒品有关的)青年犯罪团伙
      a group of young men involved in crime connected with drugs

      柯林斯词典

      1. N-COUNT 一群;一队;一批
        A posse of people is a group of people with the same job or purpose.
        1. ...a posse of reporters...
          一群记者
        2. A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea.
          马什的一群朋友劝他们说这是个馊主意。
      2. (旧时美国县治安官调集协助其追捕罪犯的)民防团
        In former times, in the United States, a posse was a group of men who were brought together by the local law officer to help him chase and capture a criminal.

        双语例句

        1. A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea.
          马什的一群朋友劝他们说这是个馊主意。
        2. In 2006 the couple took out a$ 300,000 second mortgage and hired a posse of nutritionists and a manufacturing expert.
          2006年,夫妇二人申请到了30万美元的次级贷款,聘请了数名营养师和一名生产专家。
        3. What do we do about his posse?
          我们怎么处理他带来的那群人?
        4. You were aware that until the suspension of the posse comitatus act.
          你明明知道在地方武装军团停止行动之前。
        5. This desperate posse can't call the law or an ambulance.
          这群人不能叫警察或者救护车。
        6. Looks like the good folks of island town are about to form a posse.
          看上去小岛上的良好居民要组成一个民兵团。
        7. A posse of Detroit executives went to Tokyo to plead for relief from Japan's export drive.
          底特律汽车界的一些高管们前往东京,恳求日本减弱其向美国的出口势头。
        8. Only the wise posse ideas; the greater part of mankind is possessed by them.
          惟有智者有创见,而大部分的人则被这些创见迷住了。
        9. Break it sauce shape, wear with posse tampon Taoist sacrificial ceremony the sauce inunction of tomato is on your abluent face.
          将它碎成酱汁状,用一团棉球醮着西红柿的酱汁涂擦在你洗净的脸上。
        10. The disgraced minister walked swiftly from the car to his house pursued by a whole posse of reporters.
          那个被解职的部长从车里出来飞快地走进家里,身后跟着一大群记者。
        11. The posse rode down the escaping bank robber.
          一队警察驾车追上了正在逃跑的银行抢动犯。
        12. Come on, bogardus, you was a whole posse today.
          来吧,博噶度斯,你今天带着整支搜捕队。
        13. Slang is he one of the posse that you hang out with?
          他是不是你经常厮混的朋友之一?
        14. The officers reported that the couple attempted to flee, but more likely, owing to the fact that Bonnie and Clyde had killed five policemen, the posse opened fire without warning.
          官员报告夫妇试图出逃,但是可能,由于事实健美和克莱德杀害了五位警察,团队开火,不用警告。
        15. A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
          一群人,觉得出卖了自己的政府并辜负了自己的警察部队形成一个现代波塞取缔,以正确的,他们所看到的错误。
        16. That essence is the notion in posse and in esse: and thus the world is itself the idea.
          世界的本质就是自在自为的概念,所以这世界本身即是理念。
        17. Sometimes siblings betray to each other in order to posse a piece of legacy.
          有时候,兄弟姐妹反目成仇,为的是多的一份财产。
        18. An entire posse of people who only benefit if Tyrell is alive and playing football.
          一大群人都会受益,当泰里尔活着打球。
        19. Posse gives them full scholarships and sends them to colleges and universities in teams of10.
          “波赛”为他们提供全额奖学金,把他们分为10人团队派往各学院和大学。
        20. By "posse," the student meant his group of friends& his support system.
          这名学生所说的“波赛,”是指他的朋友群&他的支持网络。
        21. Let him sit with your punk-ass little posse.
          让他和你的狐朋狗友坐在一起。
        22. Chavez said her posse was particularly helpful when she was a freshman, missing her family in Chicago a seven-hour drive away and tackling a difficult calculus class.
          查维斯说她的波赛圈在她读大一的时候特别有帮助,因为当时她想念远在七小时车程之外的芝加哥家人,同时还要苦修难懂的微积分课程。
        23. I'm just amazed that he allowed any of your posse to live, is that right?
          他让你们生还我真惊奇,是吗?
        24. Was he here when the posse come by?
          搜捕队经过时他在这里吗?
        25. Next sheriff's posse, I'll be the boss.
          下次警长纠集小队,我将会是老大。
        26. His horse is too small to follow that posse. I'll catch him.
          他的马太小,跟不上大队人马,我会追上他的。
        27. The outlaw Jesse james, pursued by a posse.
          县里调集人马追捕的歹徒杰西詹姆斯。
        28. Messrs Soros and Druckenmiller made almost$ 1bn for their fund on Black Wednesday in 1992, when they led a posse that forced the pound to devalue, and about the same again from Thailand, which triggered the 1997 east Asian crisis.
          1992年那个黑色星期三,索罗斯和德鲁肯米勒领导志同道合的投机势力成功迫使英镑贬值,为自己的基金赚入将近10亿美元。随后他们又向泰国发起了同样的攻击,引发了1997年东亚金融危机。
        29. But hold on: do women really want to turn Dad's Army into Mum's Army, a posse of latter-day Amazons braving the front line, cheek by jowl with their male counterparts?
          但且慢:女性真的想把爹爹军变为娘子军吗?一支强悍刚勇的现代娘子军要在前线与她们的男同胞们并肩冲锋陷阵?

        英英释义

        noun

        1. a temporary police force

            Synonym:    posse comitatus