网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 underbelly
释义
underbelly
noun[S]
literary
uk
/ˈʌn.dəˌbel.i/us
/ˈʌn.dɚˌbel.i/
theweakestor mostunpleasantpartof something:
最薄弱部分，软肋
afilmexposingthesordidunderbelly ofmodernurbansociety一部揭露现代都市丑恶的阴暗面的电影
Smallbusinessesare thesoftunderbelly(=weakestparts)of theeconomy, and they need as muchgovernmentsupportaspossible.小企业是经济中最薄弱的环节，它们需要政府尽可能多的支持。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Weakness and vulnerability
  • Achilles heel
  • at a low ebbidiom
  • be (only) flesh and bloodidiom
  • besomeone'spoodleidiom
  • brittle
  • helplessly
  • helplessness
  • house of cardsidiom
  • human
  • impotence
  • sitting target
  • soft target
  • submissive
  • submissively
  • submissiveness
  • watery
  • wetness
  • wimpy
  • wonky
  • wuss
See more results »
(Definition ofunderbellyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunderbelly

underbelly
This richunderbellyof musical creation and information needs to be part of film music inquiry.
From theCambridge English Corpus
By so doing we attempt to keep the farcicalunderbellyof our lives at bay.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The grammar of a language has its crust as well asunderbellyhence the need to turn it upside down from time to time!
From theCambridge English Corpus
As theunderbellyof things, materials may lie low but are never entirely subdued.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The softunderbellyof an international civil society lacks a hard shell of sovereignty.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is surely precisely opera's remoteness from the complexunderbellyof today's society that makes it so hard for it to treat the subject.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is here that the physic ian takes full glance at the vulnerableunderbellyof our humanity, the wonderful yet transient stint we have in the human spotlight.
From theCambridge English Corpus
First, there was the instruction that, in the interests of hygiene, all hairy cattle should have their underbellies shaved.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
First, their injuries do not tend to be in the neck area—they tend to be in the hind legs or theunderbelly.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The commanding heights of the economy have become its softunderbelly.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That area is the softunderbellyof our air defences.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The massive expenditure on roads has been in the softunderbellyof the south-east.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is always a pleasure to encounter the soft redunderbellyof the socialist party from time to time.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It was a newspaper on what we shall call theunderbellyof the tabloid pile.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We are still the softunderbellyof the world in this matter.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/underbelly##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2024/12/28 13:43:54