boss around

英 [bɒs əˈraʊnd]

美 [bɔːs əˈraʊnd]

对…颐指气使; 对…指手画脚

柯林斯词典

• → see:boss 3

英英释义

verb

• be bossy towards
  1. Her big brother always bullied her when she was young
  Synonym:strong-armbullybrowbeatbullyragballyraghectorpush around

双语例句

• She better not try and boss me around.
  她最好不要指挥我。
• I heard that he loves to boss people around.
  我听说他很爱指使人。
• They are the ones who will answer your questions when the boss is not around.
  当老板不在时，他们可回答你的问题。
• Don't boss me around! What do you take me for?
  别把我使唤来使唤去的！你当我是什么？
• Don't let anyone boss you around.
  别让人家把你差来遣去的。
• The employees would goof off whenever the boss wasn't around.
  只要老板不在，雇员便偷懒。
• After being showed what to do, my new boss turned around and fired her.
  我的新老板刚刚给我说完我要做的事，转身就把她给炒了。
• I had three other people I could boss around, ask them to fetch me coffee ( if I wanted too), or completely delegate all my tasks to them.
  我手下还有三个人可供差遣，我可以让他们帮我去冲咖啡（如果我想的话），或者把我的所有任务全部分配给他们完成。
• He fawning manner whenever the boss is around just makes me curl up.
  每当老板在时，他那摇尾乞怜的样子真使我恶心。
• But my boss isn't anywhere around!
  但我的长官怎么也找不到！