incumbents

英 [ɪnˈkʌmbənts]

美 [ɪnˈkʌmbənts]

n.  在职者; 现任者
incumbent的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 现任官员;在职官员
  Anincumbentis someone who holds an official post at a particular time.
  1. In general, incumbents have a 94 per cent chance of being reelected.
     通常现任官员有 94% 的几率会再次当选。
  2. Incumbentis also an adjective.
     
  3. ...the only candidate who defeated an incumbent senator.
     唯一击败现任议员的候选人
• ADJ 成为责任的;义不容辞的;必须履行的
  If it isincumbent uponyoutodo something, it is your duty or responsibility to do it.
  1. It is incumbent upon all of us to make an extra effort.
     我们所有人都必须加倍努力。

双语例句

• Incumbents tend to win presidential elections, but second-term presidents tend to be disappointing.
  现任总统往往更容易赢得选举，但连任后通常表现欠佳。
• The real structural problem is that incumbents get re-elected 90 percent of the time.
  真正的结构性问题是在位者重新当选的机会占90%。
• However, the big incumbents will be reluctant to open up their business models while they can achieve such high profit margins on materials sales.
  然而，只要能从材料销售中实现高利润率，现有的大型3D打印公司就将不情愿开放商业模式。
• New brands will find it hard to break in. Incumbents may find the new regime rather cosy.
  新牌子发现自己很难打入该市场，而老牌子则在这一新制度下存活得更加惬意。
• For years, business software was a dead-end for innovation, dominated as it was by Microsoft, Oracle, and other entrenched incumbents.
  多年来，商业软件是创新的死胡同，被微软（Microsoft）、甲骨文（Oracle）和其他根深蒂固的巨头所主导。
• There are signs, however, that the electorate is not always hell-bent on chucking out incumbents.
  不过，也有迹象显示，选民们并不总会执意把现任首席部长赶下台。
• Be it broadcasting, pharmaceuticals, banking or insurance, my experience has been that the rules favour incumbents.
  根据我的经验，不论是广播、制药、银行还是保险行业，规则都是有利于现有企业的。
• Proprietary software incumbents have been forced to respond and adapt.
  专有软件公司被迫对此做出反应，对此进行适应。
• Then it uses two of the 200 termination points it has established around the world to establish the final links between the two parties on their public telephone networks, paying the incumbents for these essentially local calls.
  然后它利用在全球各地建立的200个终接点中的两个点，在通话双方的公共电话网络上建立起他们之间的最终连接，并为这些基本上属于本地通话的呼叫向电信公司付费。
• The incumbents have a point, though: For larger corporations, going full cloud is not simple.
  不过，市场领先者有一点所言极是：对于大公司，完全云化殊为不易。