a man who is influential in a movement or organization, through providing support for it or through playing a leading or innovatory part in it 对某一运动(或组织)产生影响的男子 the godfather of alternative comedy. 对非传统喜剧有重要影响的人。 ■a person directing an illegal organization, especially a leader of the American Mafia 非法组织(尤指美国黑手党)的首领