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。
• 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。
• Once an underling, always an underling.
  一旦是下僚，永远都是一个下僚。
• I find the more power motivation the manager have, the more strength their underling could feel, and the job could go with a swing.
  调查发现具有权力动机的管理者更能让其下属感到强大有力，工作进展更顺利。
• 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。
• 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。
• Responsible for the assistance of draft out and prepare the all kinds of internal executive documents, then hand round to different department and underling enterprise after the leading signed the confirmation.
  协助起草公司各类内部行政文件，报经上级领导审阅签发后分送有关部门及下属企业落实与执行。
• However, this method needs one time signature and thus adds noticeable overhead to the underling scheme.
  但由于该方法需要用到一次性签名，给所基于的方案增加了明显的通信和计算负载。
• He's an underling of the gang leader.
  他是匪首的爪牙。
• 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。