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

• Every underling feared him.
  所有的手下都怕他。
• 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's an underling of the gang leader.
  他是匪首的爪牙。
• It was this type of tech-hungry underling who drove the initial interest in the cloud.
  正是这类“技术饥饿”的下属最先对云技术产生了兴趣。
• The paper also emphasizes rules and main features which aid in underling the emotional adjectives which are in sentences.
  指出了情意形容词与其他形容词的区别，强调了情意形容词所包含的感情、感觉形容词构成句子的一般规律及主要特征。
• Discovery of such disruptions in the fine balance that normally exists between brain circuits underling reward, motivation, memory and cognitive control have important implications for designing multi-pronged therapies for treating addictive disorders.
  发现通常存在于负责奖赏、动机、记忆和认知控制的大脑回路的平衡被打破，对设计成瘾障碍多管齐下的治疗方案具有很大的意义。
• That's the kind where a boss tells an underling, for example, You can have a raise if you sleep with me.
  所谓的补偿条件，比如有上司对下属说：跟我上床，我就给你涨工资。
• This can be avoided by explaining to the messenger that you are saving the feelings of the malodorous underling.
  但这种情况是可以避免的，方法是向那位代言人解释，你是在照顾那个有体味下属的感受。
• He seemed to be master, not underling, now.
  他现在显得像是个主人，不是个下属了。
• One such underling approached an associate of Mr. Bo shortly after a meeting in Dalian and begged the associate to give her a job.
  他的一个下属在大连的一个会议结束后，立刻找到薄的一个同事，请求他能给她提供一份工作。