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

• Tragicomically, the study found that bosses often believe their own guff, even if their underlings do not.
  令人哭笑不得的是，调查显示，不管下属们信不信老板说的废话，反正老板们自己信了。
• 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。
• To me, the fact that you are worrying about it makes you morally superior to all the managers who routinely run down their underlings without a second thought.
  在我看来，你对此感到担心的事实，就证明你的道德水平高于所有那些通常不假思索就会贬低下属的经理。
• It allows sub-standard chief executives to rationalise huge pay packages while their underlings get peanuts ( or rice).
  次级高管可用来获得理所应当的丰厚综合工资，而下属只有花生米大小的微薄薪资，甚至米粒大小。
• 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。
• Hired underlings of a gangster boss.
  流氓头子雇用的喽罗。
• 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。
• Real-life members of Congress love the series, as do underlings.
  不过现实中，国会议员和下属们都很喜欢这部剧。
• 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。
• 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。