underling

英 [ˈʌndəlɪŋ]

美 [ˈʌndərlɪŋ]

n.  走卒; 喽啰; 手下; 下属

复数：underlings　

GREIELTSTEM8

BNC.32936 / COCA.21288

牛津词典

noun

• 走卒；喽啰；手下；下属
  a person with a lower rank or status

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

英英释义

noun

• an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
  Synonym:subordinatesubsidiaryfoot soldier

双语例句

• Discovery of such disruptions in the fine balance that normally exists between brain circuits underling reward, motivation, memory and cognitive control have important implications for designing multi-pronged therapies for treating addictive disorders.
  发现通常存在于负责奖赏、动机、记忆和认知控制的大脑回路的平衡被打破，对设计成瘾障碍多管齐下的治疗方案具有很大的意义。
• One luckless underling who had been given a frosty bollocking said to the camera: I am going to kill myself.
  一名被痛斥了一顿的倒霉下属对着摄影机说：我去自杀好了。
• According to the worldly criteria, the dutiful children should not cater for parents by lie and the faithful underling should not flatter his supervisor.
  依照世俗的标准，孝顺的孩子不应该以不实的言词去奉承父母亲；忠贞的部下不应该谄媚直属长官。
• I find the more power motivation the manager have, the more strength their underling could feel, and the job could go with a swing.
  调查发现具有权力动机的管理者更能让其下属感到强大有力，工作进展更顺利。
• This can be avoided by explaining to the messenger that you are saving the feelings of the malodorous underling.
  但这种情况是可以避免的，方法是向那位代言人解释，你是在照顾那个有体味下属的感受。
• However, this method needs one time signature and thus adds noticeable overhead to the underling scheme.
  但由于该方法需要用到一次性签名，给所基于的方案增加了明显的通信和计算负载。
• Leonard arguably presents both problems& on one view, a governmental office sent an underling to silence a political opponent before he could make a potentially damaging speech.
  列昂纳德一案提出了双方的问题：根据观察，政府办公室在其制造潜在的破坏性言论前派下属压制政治对手。
• Once an underling, always an underling.
  一旦是下僚，永远都是一个下僚。
• In their eyes, there is no difference between the emperors such as Fuxi, Yellow Emperor and the common people such as peddler and underling.
  在他们眼里，伏羲、黄帝与一般贩夫走卒之间并无什差别。
• He had been cavalierly affronted by a man who, but a short years before, he would have considered a mere underling.
  几年前，他原认为这个人不过是个无名小卒，现在居然傲慢地侮辱了他。