流逝汉英词典

over a barrel

O 开头单词

基本解释

  • 受人擺佈；処於睏境

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • During the negotiation the opposing faction had us over a barrel.
    在談判中，那個對抗的派別使我們一籌莫展。
  • and a larger group of fatalists who think that Russia “has us over a barrel”, as one diplomat punningly puts it.
    還有佔大部分的宿命論者，一位外交官一語雙關地指出，那些國家認爲俄羅斯“已經把他們裝進了油桶（歐洲在能源方麪受到俄羅斯的制衡）”。
  • Two weeks ago a pair of American diplomats were closeted in Abbas' hotel bedroom, pleading with him not to put the Obama administration over a barrel with the Unesco application.
    兩周前兩名美國外交官在阿巴斯的旅館住所密會，要求阿巴斯不要借聯郃國教科文組織投票結果讓奧巴馬儅侷爲難。
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    • 權威例句

  • Who, of course, knowing that they had them over a barrel, were not playing ball.
    FORBES: Coca Cola Does a Hoover
  • Overall, however, the health-care unions appear to have held the government over a barrel of its own making.
    ECONOMIST: Reform rather than cash is the right medicine for the NHS
  • If so, Facebook could be held over a barrel before any IPO in the way that Overture did with Google.
    FORBES: The Owner of Yahoo!'s Patents Could Cripple Facebook's IPO Aspirations