strongman

noun

1. 铁腕人物；独裁者
   a leader who uses threats or violence to rule a country
2. （尤指马戏团里的）大力士
   a physically very strong man, especially sb who performs in a circus

1. N-COUNT 铁腕人物;独裁者
   If you refer to a male political leader as a strongman, you mean that he has great power and control over his country, although his methods may sometimes be violent or morally wrong.
   1. He was a military strongman who ruled the country after a coup.
      他是个军事独裁者，在一场军事政变后成为这个国家的统治者。

1. He was a military strongman who ruled the country after a coup.
   他是个军事独裁者，在一场军事政变后成为这个国家的统治者。
2. Few people know the obstacles strongman Zhang Xiangxiang had to overcome before finally winning his first Olympic gold.
   很少有人知道大力士张湘祥在最终获得他的第一枚奥运金牌前要克服的障碍。
3. Samson was a strongman who let himself be led astray by a Jezebel like delilah.
   参孙是个大力士。他让他自己被像大力拉的耶洗别带入歧途。
4. The first Chinese strongman competition was held in Panyu of Guangdong Province in1999 and after that many various competitions were held in other cities in china, which promoted strongman sport to a new phase.
   1999年首届中国大力士选拔赛在广东番禺举行，随后几年全国各地陆续举办了各种规格的大力士比赛，这使我国大力士运动步入了一个新阶段。
5. Mr Maliki is trying to buff up his image as the strongman who can provide law and order.
   马利基想树立自己顽强的形象，能够建立法制和秩序。
6. The strongman will be as tinder and all his work a spark: both will burn together and no one will quench the fire.
   强者将似麻絮，他的工作犹如火花：二者必要同时焚烧，无人予以熄灭。
7. At first the former policeman, who likes to cultivate a strongman image, oversaw swift progress. A series of televised arrests put a stop to a spate of kidnappings.
   一开始，前一任手段强硬的警察，通过一系列电视节目报导逮捕，从而制止了大规模绑架事件。
8. In recent years, along with joining of Chinese sports and international sports and connected with its development, the strongman sport is gradually introduced to China and gains broad recognition.
   近年来，随着我国体育与国际体育接轨，并结合自身的发展，大力士运动逐渐进入我国，得到了广泛的认可。
9. Thein Sein, a recently retired general, had made little impact in four years as prime minister during the junta led by army strongman Senior General Than Shwe.
   吴登盛是一位退休不久的将军，曾在军方铁腕人物丹瑞大将（SeniorGeneralThanShwe）领导下的军政府中担任了四年总理，在那段时间里，他鲜有建树。
10. Mr Putin cultivates the image of a popular and admired strongman, but the wave of protests since he announced his return to the Kremlin has exposed his weakness and loss of support.
    普京树立了受欢迎的和令人钦佩的强人形象，但自从他宣称重返克里姆林宫，抗议者的巨潮已经暴露出他的弱点并且失去了支持。
11. The war in Chechnya was over and the Republic appeared relatively calm under its strongman president, Ramzan Kadyrov.
    车臣战争结束后，在车臣总统拉姆赞卡德罗夫的铁腕之下，这个共和国相对还算老实。
12. Western powers stood to gain from this strongman's death.
    西方世界会从他的死中获利。
13. The upheaval comes less than a month after a sudden youth revolt in nearby Tunisia toppled another enduring Arab strongman, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
    这场巨变发生前不到一个月，邻国突尼斯的年轻人刚刚推翻了其总统，阿拉伯世界里另一个历经风雨的强人，宰因.阿比丁.本.阿里。
14. Fill the power vacuum which the departed political strongman left
    填补政治强人死后留下的权力真空
15. It suggests how little the rule of law and principles of accountability have penetrated public life in each country. And also, compared with the power of competing factions, how overstated is the strongman reputation of Mr Putin, Russia's prime minister.
    这显示出，法治和问责制度对这两个国家公共生活的影响是如何微弱；而且与竞争派系的实力相比，俄罗斯总理普京的强人名声是如何被夸大的。
16. Australia, brags Mr Costello, has become not the poor white trash but "the strongman of Asia".
    科斯特洛夸口说，澳大利亚并没有变成“贫困的白人渣滓”，而是成为了“亚洲的大力士”。
17. His remarks came as state television was airing images of the embattled but defiant strongman urging viewers to defend the nation.
    潘基文做此番讲话时，利比亚国家电视台正在播放四面楚歌但依然负隅顽抗的卡扎菲要求民众保卫国家的镜头。
18. On spirit of strongman in Wolf Totem
    论《狼图腾》中的强者精神
19. In foreign relations the politic 'strongman' has a strong idealistic style. "Leadership Love" and "Unity Dream" is a main line of Qaddafi 'diplomatic practices.
    在对外关系上，强人政治具有浓厚的理想色彩，领袖梦和统一情是贯穿于其外交实践的一条主线。

noun

1. a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence
   1. he is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman

2. a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus