underlings

基本解釋

See if you can get one of your underlings (or friends or little brother or whatever) to do it instead.
看下能不能讓你的下屬（朋友、兄弟等）替你去做。
We are your brothers and sisters, your parents and children, your superiors and your underlings. We are the concerned citizens standing next to you.
我們可以是你們的兄弟或姊妹、父母或子女、上司或下屬，我們是在你身邊的對社會保持關注的公民。
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.
在我看來，你對此感到擔心的事實，就證明你的道德水平高于所有那些通常不假思索就會貶低下屬的經理。

In face of sagging approval ratings, Russia's president also disciplined underlings.
What it meant was that in principle, your power was greater than any challenge that could come from those underlings, those craven reptiles in your imagination over whom you ruled.
這意味著在原則上,你的權利大到,不會受到屬下的任何質疑,在你的眼里他們應該是低聲下氣的應聲蟲
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選

They report his righteous outrage when he learns of the mistakes of his underlings.
FORBES: Press Letting Obama Off As Bystander President
Leaders who seek advice from underlings, even very junior staff, make better, more informed decisions.
FORBES: Good Managers Listen. Great Managers Ask Questions.

You refer to someone as an underling when 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.