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

• However, Nur al-Din was not alone in facing ambitious underlings.
  但努尔丁是不会独自面对这位雄心勃勃的下属的。
• Even now, he works 80 to 90-hour weeks, a camera constantly trained on his face to shout commands at underlings.
  即使是现在，他每周仍然工作80至90个小时，一架摄像机瞄准他的脸，以方便他对下属发号施令。
• Underlings fawn on their bosses.
  奴才巴结主子。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Tragicomically, the study found that bosses often believe their own guff, even if their underlings do not.
  令人哭笑不得的是，调查显示，不管下属们信不信老板说的废话，反正老板们自己信了。
• Hired underlings of a gangster boss.
  流氓头子雇用的喽罗。
• The last secret-government underground bases are closed, and we evacuated many more thousands of dark cabal underlings from them.
  最后的秘密政府的地下基地被关闭了，我们从黑暗势力手中疏散了数千他们的下属。
• 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。