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

• Managers find it hard to make the lives of their underlings any better because they are too miserable themselves.
  管理者难以让下属的生活变得更好是因为他们自己太痛苦了。
• Indian media reports say there is also official suspicion some of his underlings may have provided support to the terrorists who struck last week.
  印度媒体报导说，还有官员怀疑，达乌德.易卜拉欣的一些手下可能为上星期发动袭击的恐怖分子提供了支持。
• One of the reasons management consultants flourish is that chief executives look at their mediocre underlings and outsource work to brains on sticks instead.
  管理咨询公司能够蓬勃发展的原因之一是，首席执行官们看着他们平庸的下属，然后把工作外包给了一些书呆子。
• 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。
• Heathcliff, on second thoughts, resolved to avoid a struggle against the three underlings.
  希刺克厉夫一转念，决定避免和这三个下属争斗。
• Underlings fawn on their bosses.
  奴才巴结主子。
• He dishes out orders to his underlings.
  他向手下人随意发号施令。
• To me, the fact that you are worrying about it makes you morally superior to all the managers who routinely run down their underlings without a second thought.
  在我看来，你对此感到担心的事实，就证明你的道德水平高于所有那些通常不假思索就会贬低下属的经理。
• 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。
• And even the sell-side analysts get their underlings to do them.
  就算是销售分析师也通常把这事交给手下人干。