leading light

英 [ˌliːdɪŋ ˈlaɪt]

美 [ˌliːdɪŋ ˈlaɪt]

n.  (某活动范围内)重要的活跃人物，受敬重的人物

牛津词典

noun

• （某活动范围内）重要的活跃人物，受敬重的人物
  an important, active or respected person in a particular area of activity
  1. She's one of the leading lights in the opera world.
     她是歌剧界的一位大腕。

柯林斯词典

• 显赫人物；积极分子；中流砥柱
  If you say that someone is aleading lightin an organization, campaign, or community, you mean that they are one of the most important, active, enthusiastic, and successful people in it.

英英释义

noun

• a celebrity who is an inspiration to others
  1. he was host to a large gathering of luminaries
  Synonym:luminaryguiding lightnotablenotability

双语例句

• Cymer, Inc.," the world's leading supplier of excimer light sources," headquartered in San Diego, has publicized more recent successes in the same vein.
  总部设于SanDiego的Cymer，Inc.，是世界领先的准分子光源供应商，它在最近也宣布取得了类似的成功。
• What we do know thanks to the efforts of Gary Solon, a professor at the University of Michigan and a leading light in the field is that the transmission of income down the generations is higher than we used to think.
  我们知道的是这要感谢密歇根大学（universityofmichigan）教授、该领域重要人物加里索伦（garysolon）的努力收入在世代之间的传递程度要比我们过去认为的要高。
• Qinzhou Ni-xing Arts and Crafts Factory, a once leading enterprise among the national light industries in exporting and earning foreign exchanges, hindered by the inefficient management, has been suffering losses for years successively.
  钦州坭兴工艺厂原是全国轻工业出口创汇先进企业，但由于长期以来的管理不善，加之营销观念陈旧，造成了企业近几年来的连年亏损。
• Howard Segal, an historian at the University of Maine, says the movement imploded when its leading light, Howard Scott, was unmasked as a failed wax salesman, not the great engineer he claimed to be.
  缅因大学历史学家霍华德·西格尔说当运动的指明灯霍华德·斯科特东窗事发像一个失败的蜡推销员，而不是他宣称的伟大的工程师，这个运动就破灭了。
• Californian agriculture is the leading light in America and even in the world.
  美国加州的农业不仅称雄美国，而且领先于世界各地。
• The pair can then pass from virtual to real, leading to an outward flux of observable light and a corresponding decrease in the mass of the hole.
  于是这对光子就会由虚转实，形成一股可观察到的向外光通量，而此时黑洞的质量也会相应下降。
• We are among the leading dealers of this city in light industrial products.
  我们是这个城市中经营轻工业产品的主要商号之一。
• Dissolving the test specimen and making solution, leading the solution to plasma light source to activate the test element producing spectral line, then the instrument brings out analysis result according to the spectral line strength of the test element.
  将待测试样溶解成溶液，然后将溶液引入等离子光源使待测元素激发产生谱线，仪器根据待测元素谱线强度给出分析结果。
• The reasons leading to light pollution and its harm are analyzed, and instructive countermeasures to con-trol light pollution are discussed.
  总结分析了光污染产生的原因及其对环境的危害，探讨了克服光污染的防治策略。
• A Probe into the Selection and Fostering of Leading Industry in Less Developed Regions in the light the Theory of Dissipative Structures
  从耗散结构理论视角看欠发达地区主导产业的选择与培育问题