posses
n. 地方武装团队( posse的名词复数 )
A posse of people is a group of people with the same job or purpose.
...a posse of reporters...
一群记者
A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea.
马什的一群朋友劝他们说这是个馊主意。
In former times, in the United States, a posse was a group of men who were brought together by the local law officer to help him chase and capture a criminal.
The management handed back his few posses-sions.
管理部门把他仅有的那点财物还给了他。
Religious pamphlets were found in their posses-sion.
他们被发现持有宗教宣传册。
No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees posses, we have a horror of being stung.
不管我们有多么喜欢蜂蜜, 或者不管我们读过多少关于蜜蜂所具有的不可思议的方向感的书籍, 我们都怕被蜇.
We regard electrons as particles because they posses charge and mass.
我们认为电子是粒子,这是因为电子带有电荷,有其质量.
Several posses have already started after him.
这时,已经有几队警察在追踪他.