boss
boss 英 [bɒs] 美 [bɔs]
n. 老板；工头 v. 当…的领导
进行时:bossing 过去式:bossed 过去分词:bossed 第三人称单数:bosses 名词复数:bosses
- A boss is an authority figure, often the person who tells you what to do at work. If you work as a waiter, your boss might be the restaurant manager.
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- n. 老板；工头
- v. 当…的领导
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1. I'll ask my boss if I can have the day off.
我要问一下老板我能不能请一天假。
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2. I like being my own boss.
我喜欢自己做老板，自己拿主意。
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3. Who's the boss in this house?
这个家里谁说了算？
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4. Hospital bosses protested at the decision.
医院领导们抗议这一决定。
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5. I'm sick of you bossing me around!
我讨厌你对我指手画脚。
- boss (n.1) "overseer, one who employs or oversees workers," 1640s, American English, from Dutch baas "a master," Middle Dutch baes, of obscure origin. If original sense was "uncle," perhaps it is related to Old High German basa "aunt," but some sources discount this theory.
- boss (n.2) "protuberance, button," c. 1300, from Old French boce "a hump, swelling, tumor" (12c., Modern French bosse), from either Frankish *botija or Vulgar Latin *bottia, both of uncertain origin.
- boss (v.1) "be master or manager of, to order and direct as a boss," 1856, from boss (n.1). Related: Bossed; bossing.
- boss (v.2) c. 1400, "to swell out; to beat or press into a raised ornament," from boss (n.2). From 1620s as "to furnish with bosses." Related: Bossed; bossing.
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