under the thumb

常見例句

“Central banks hate doing that because it puts them more under the thumb of the finance ministry, ” he said.
他說：“央行都不喜歡這樣，因爲(wèi)這會(huì)使它們被更多地壓制於財(cái)政部的大拇指之下。”
Like Iranians before them, Egyptians may neither forget, nor forgive, those who kept them under the thumb of an oppressive ruler.
正如他們的先例，伊朗人一樣，埃及人既不會(huì)忘記，也不會(huì)原諒那些曾經(jīng)把他們踏在腳下的統(tǒng)治者。
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One of the two bits of a future Palestinian state, the Gaza Strip, is under the thumb of the Islamists of Hamas and locked out of the diplomacy.
作爲(wèi)未來巴勒斯坦國兩塊領(lǐng)土之一，加沙地帶被哈馬斯所佔(zhàn)據(jù)，竝在外交上實(shí)行了“鎖國”政策。

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But their complaint was against bourgeois flabbiness, not against business itself or keeping workers under the thumb.
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