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

• The Ju Yuan fruit exchange market is the underling of company which to the biggest and the equipments of it is the most complete of all fruit exchange market is the district.
  公司下设菊园果品交易市场的是全区规模最大，设施最完备的果品交易市场。
• He's an underling of the gang leader.
  他是匪首的爪牙。
• There will be three days when a co-worker, underling, or conversely, a work project may bring on stress.
  将有三天时，同事，下属，或相反，工作项目可能带来的压力。
• Some speakers, if they're reading from a complete text, underling the words they want to emphasize.
  有的演说者在诵读全文的时候，在他们想要强调的词下面划线。
• When I was no longer an underling even as a senior team leader I still never felt that grown-up, and I realized that much of the time I still felt clueless.
  然而当我不再是一个跑腿的、甚至在我成为了一个有经验的队长时，我仍然做不到所谓的游刃有余，并且在多数时候我依旧感觉到毫无头绪。
• 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。
• Rather than fire an underling, he carried the can himself.
  他没有解雇下属，而是自己担起了过错。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。