"powerful person," 1670s, from Great Mogul, Mongol emperor of India after the conquest of 1520s, from Persian and Arabic mughal, mughul, alteration of Mongol (q.v.), the Asiatic people.
mogul (n.2)
"elevation on a ski slope," 1961, probably [Barnhart] from Scandinavian (compare dialectal Norwegian mugje, fem. muga, "a heap, a mound"), or [OED] from southern German dialect mugel in the same sense.
雙語例句
1. The press mogul befriended the high and mighty in Britain.
這位報界大亨和英國的顯貴達人們交情甚好。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The football captain was the mogul of the school.
那足球隊長是該校的大人物.
來自辭典例句
3. I don't deny that your sister comes the mogul over us, now and then.
我并不否認,你姐姐老是象個暴君似的騎在我們頭上.
來自辭典例句
4. Her father Tony Tanaka is a well - known cosmetic mogul in Japan.
原來他的父親田中東尼,是日本 知名 的彩妝大亨.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. The legs extend for the next mogul in an aligned position.