crack the whip
基本解釋
- 要挾服從
英漢例句
- He tried to crack the whip, but it was of no use.
他試著揮那鞭子，但是無(wú)濟(jì)于事。 - 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.
迄今為止，美國(guó)國(guó)務(wù)卿康多莉扎·賴斯（Condoleezza Rice）幾乎沒(méi)有為和平進(jìn)程積極奔走過(guò)，但最終她已表示愿意作為第一幕的導(dǎo)演（ringmistress）介入雙方?jīng)_突。 - OK, you'd better get back to work unless you want me to crack the whip and start yelling at you.
好了，你最好回去工作了，除非你要我開(kāi)始狠狠地對(duì)你吼。 - 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.
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雙語(yǔ)例句
權(quán)威例句
詞組短語(yǔ)
- Crack goes the whip 啪的一聲鞭子響了
- Fair crack of the whip 好機(jī)會(huì)
- Fair crack o ' the whip 公平的機(jī)會(huì)
- the crack of a whip 鞭子的劈啪聲;鞭子的噼啪聲
短語(yǔ)
英英字典
- to use your authority to make someone else behave better or work harder