over a barrel

基本解释

• 受人摆布；处于困境

英汉例句

双语例句

• During the negotiation the opposing faction had us over a barrel.
  在谈判中，那个对抗的派别使我们一筹莫展。
• and a larger group of fatalists who think that Russia “has us over a barrel”, as one diplomat punningly puts it.
  还有占大部分的宿命论者，一位外交官一语双关地指出，那些国家认为俄罗斯“已经把他们装进了油桶（欧洲在能源方面受到俄罗斯的制衡）”。
• 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.
  两周前两名美国外交官在阿巴斯的旅馆住所密会，要求阿巴斯不要借联合国教科文组织投票结果让奥巴马当局为难。
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权威例句

• 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

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