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 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。
• The fact that she is not put off by your attentions and is even prepared to favour you as a friend could mean that she is emotionally warped and gets a thrill out of being loved in vain by underlings.
  她没有对你的关注感到反感，甚至准备把你当成好朋友，可能说明她情感上有些扭曲，下属徒劳的爱恋让她感到兴奋。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Underlings fawn on their bosses.
  奴才巴结主子。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。