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

• Gan'arg Underlings and Felhound Defenders are now properly classified as demons.
  加南的手下和地狱犬守卫者现在正确的归属于恶魔。
• 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。
• 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。
• Let the rest of these people be seen by underlings.
  让下属去见其他这些人吧。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。