underlings

英 [ˈʌndəlɪŋz]

美 [ˈʌndərlɪŋz]

n.  走卒; 喽啰; 手下; 下属
underling的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 跟班儿；手下；羽翼；喽啰；走卒
  You refer to someone as anunderlingwhen they are inferior in rank or status to someone else and take orders from them. You use this word to show that you do not respect someone.
  1. Every underling feared him.
     所有的手下都怕他。
  2. ...underlings who do the dirty work.
     行卑劣之事的走卒

双语例句

• She surrounded herself with underlings who were too afraid of her to ever answer back.
  她找了一些对她害怕得从不敢回嘴的下属围在自己身边。
• Isaiah said to them,'Tell your master,'This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard-those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
  以赛亚对他们说，要这样对你们的主人说，耶和华如此说，你听见亚述王的仆人亵渎我的话，不要惧怕。
• Urbane, well traveled, owners of homes and cars, employers of underlings and nannies, they are living the urban dream of China's post Cultural Revolution generation.
  他们彬彬有礼，经常出外旅游并拥有了房子和汽车，成为了拥有不少下属和奶妈的雇主。
• Underlings fawn on their bosses.
  奴才巴结主子。
• She had claimed that her boss had told all his female underlings to signal with their eyes if they desperately wanted to be laid on the boardroom table.
  这名女子指控她的老板对所有女下属说出了这样的话：如果她们特别想被放倒在会议桌上，只要用眼睛示意一下。
• It allows sub-standard chief executives to rationalise huge pay packages while their underlings get peanuts ( or rice).
  次级高管可用来获得理所应当的丰厚综合工资，而下属只有花生米大小的微薄薪资，甚至米粒大小。
• In doing so he broke a sacred Bell Labs rule-"absolutely never to compete with underlings"-for which he was never forgiven.
  他的做法有违贝尔实验室的一条神圣规则“千万不要和下属竞争”这条罪名他一直担着。
• Let the rest of these people be seen by underlings.
  让下属去见其他这些人吧。
• "They're robbed by underlings," said Fanny shortly." just what I said. "
  “他们是被手下那帮人坑的，”范妮烦躁地说。“就是我说的那样。”
• Certainly his underlings dislike the sectarian style Mr Wolfowitz seems to share with the man who appointed him.
  无疑，他的下属们都不喜欢他要与任命他的人共享利益的宗派主义风格。