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

• 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。
• Every underling feared him.
  所有的手下都怕他。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He's an underling of the gang leader.
  他是匪首的爪牙。
• 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。
• He seemed to be master, not underling, now.
  他现在显得像是个主人，不是个下属了。
• To direct and manage the underling to work effectively.
  综合有效指导并管理下属人事事务的运做；