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

• Then the underlings open their mouths only to impress the boss.
  这种情况下，下属开口就是为了给老板留下印象。
• 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。
• 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。
• Underlings fawn on their bosses.
  奴才巴结主子。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Meanwhile their underlings were paid about 1 per cent less than had the CEO remained childless.
  同时，这些首席执行官的下属薪水会比老板没有孩子时下降1%左右。
• We chatted for a bit about people we knew in journalism, and I volunteered that so-and-so had just left his wife and was now shacked up with one of his underlings.
  聊了一阵我们在新闻业中的旧相识之后，我主动提到，某某某刚和老婆分手，现在正和一名下属同居。