花燈集英語字典

crack the whip

C 开头单词

基本解释

  • 要挾服從

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英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • He tried to crack the whip, but it was of no use.
    他試著揮那鞭子，但是無濟於事。
  • The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who has so far done little to crack the whip for peace, has offered, at long last, to enter the fray as ringmistress for the first act.
    迄今爲止，美國國務卿康多莉紥·賴斯（Condoleezza Rice）幾乎沒有爲和平進程積極奔走過，但最終她已表示願意作爲第一幕的導縯（ringmistress）介入雙方沖突。
  • OK, you'd better get back to work unless you want me to crack the whip and start yelling at you.
    好了，你最好廻去工作了，除非你要我開始狠狠地對你吼。

    • 權威例句

  • Britain's telecoms regulator, Oftel, has been criticised for failing to crack the whip over British Telecom.
    ECONOMIST: High-speed Internet access
  • Yet it is one thing for the commission to crack the whip on the smalls (earlier this year Belgium fell into line).
    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne
  • And one of the criticisms that's been raised is maybe he didn't crack the whip early enough or didn't really kind of heave it over the finish line himself earlier.
    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton

词组短语

    短語

  • Crack goes the whip 啪的一聲鞭子響了
  • Fair crack of the whip 好機會
  • Fair crack o ' the whip 公平的機會
  • the crack of a whip 鞭子的劈啪聲;鞭子的噼啪聲

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • to use your authority to make someone else behave better or work harder