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双语例句

• Like Iranians before them, Egyptians may neither forget, nor forgive, those who kept them under the thumb of an oppressive ruler.
  正如他们的先例，伊朗人一样，埃及人既不会忘记，也不会原谅那些曾经把他们踏在脚下的统治者。
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• Chechnya itself has been relatively calm in recent years under the thumb of the local strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, installed by Mr Putin as Chechen president in 2007.
  车臣本土，近年在本地铁腕人物拉姆赞•卡德罗夫的统治下，相对平静，此人于2007年被普京先生任命为车臣总统。
• 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.
  作为未来巴勒斯坦国两块领土之一，加沙地带被哈马斯所占据，并在外交上实行了“锁国”政策。

权威例句

• Under the scheme, Washington brought the tobacco industry under the thumb of federal regulation.
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• He stayed home to lend support to besieged democrats under the thumb of Robert Mugabe.
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• The British preferred to allow him to return via Portugal, formally a neutral country but under the thumb of Germany.
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