The vice-president’s safekeepers whisk him from place to place, just as his arch-nemesis Osama bin Laden is presumably moved from cave to cave halfway across the world.
书上给出 arch 的解释是:pre-eminent of its kind (esp. in unfavorable senses),不过我看了也不是太懂,麻烦请专家解释一下。
c老师:
arch-表示“主要的,首要的”意思。如:
archduke 大公(尤指旧时奥国皇太子)
archbishop 大主教
archangel 天使长
arch-enemy 魔王;主要敌人
arch-fascist 头号法西斯
arch-hypocrite 最大的伪君子